Word: siberian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eggs. Next day Nixon and his swelling entourage-"This is beginning to look like Coxey's Army," cracked one U.S. correspondent-headed east to Russia's great Siberian hinterland, where the earth is black and rich, and sunflowers (grown for their commercial oil) lattice the countryside with gold. Here, in "closed" cities that no Americans save a handful of dignitaries have been allowed-to visit in years, Nixon's trip turned into an impromptu triumph...
...Communist tactic, but also mindful of an audience whose sympathy he might win, Nixon gave restrained but unyielding answers, pounding away endlessly at Russia's jamming of U.S. broadcasts and its refusal to give the Russian people a chance to choose freely between conflicting "truths." At Uralmash, the Siberian plant that has made so many machine tools that it is called "the Mother of Factories," Nixon told a heckling foreman: "I can tell from talking to you that you are a highly intelligent man who has studied the world situation . . . Why should somebody else tell you that...
...Reason Why. Having planted the notion of free and peaceful interchange in at least a few Siberian minds, Nixon, tired but still eager, flew back to Moscow to deliver his farewell speech on radio and TV. While Nixon .was busy writing hi's script, Nikita Khrushchev, just back himself from a trip to the Ukraine, showed up unexpectedly at Moscow Airport to inspect the two Boeing 707 jets waiting to take the Nixon party on to Warsaw. Though dissatisfied with the highball proffered him-"You Americans spoil whisky. There's more ice than whisky in this"-Khrushchev...
Chewing Firecrackers. Physically, Frol Kozlov is a sturdy specimen (5 ft. 8 in., 176 Ibs.) of Kremlin man. His hands are small and active, and so are his well-shod feet. He has a big, oval face, pale as a Siberian snowfall, and his nose is straight and narrow-bridged. When he smiles, a thin upper lip edges high to reveal a set of glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad...
...experiments on the ocean. Not all of them like this prospect; they feel that tinkering with the ocean without sufficient knowledge may be extremely dangerous. They are aghast at the project much discussed by the Russians, of using atomic energy to clear the Arctic Ocean of ice to help Siberian sea transport. Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory believes that the Northern Hemisphere's comparative freedom from continental glaciers is due to Arctic ice. Winds blowing off the Arctic Ocean are now dry, but if the ice were removed, they would become moist, dropping...