Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maternal Glory. Not until Russian policies change will the full story of Leonov and Belyayev's flight become common knowledge. Only the lives of the cosmonauts themselves got a colorful airing. Leonov, now 30, was born in the village of Listvyanka in the Kuznetsk coal-mining region of Siberia, where his mother earned the Order of Maternal Glory, First Class, for her family of nine. In 1948 his parents moved to Kaliningrad (formerly Konigsberg in East Prussia), which had been abandoned by its German masters...
Over the past six months, more than 125,000 refugees have poured into the coastal region. Many of the new arrivals have been forced to burn their identity cards in the flames consuming their homes-making it easier for Viet Cong cadres to infiltrate alongside them. It was all too reminiscent of the last days of the Korean War, when thousands of displaced persons flooded through the Main Line of Resistance. Often the benevolent, top-hatted South Korean papa-san was freighted with grenades or a machine...
...Stirring. From those tiny things, the two men boldly re-created a vast era of prehistory. In that remote period, they say, the region that is now the northwest shore of Lake Superior was covered by a shallow sea or perhaps a chain of lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were...
...made into a hirable welder in the first place? Asbell skips over these disturbing eventualities with disarming haste. His darling is the unemployed man who turns out to have above-average abilities, who is young enough to be attractive to employers, and who lives in a region where there are skilled jobs to be had. He leaves the slow-witted, elderly resident of a depressed town to his own devices--and probably to the relief rolls...
Beer and Miss Carden won $25 and a Jan and Dean album for their efforts. They will also win a color television if their total is highest in the region...