Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least several months, the Big Bird combines the capabilities of several earlier satellites. It can transmit high-quality pictures by radio, and eject capsules of exposed film which then drop by parachute. The Big Bird also includes infra-red heat-sensing equipment that allows it to "see" through Siberian ice and snow to locate Soviet underground weapons. The heaviest concentration of long-range Russian missiles, Klass reports, is behind the Urals in Central Asia and in Siberia...
...Japanese-American alliance is not necessarily long-term, however, as is indicated by warming relations between the Soviet Union and Japan, as evidenced in the joint Siberian development agreement, and also by recent Japanese attempts to normalize relations with China...
...coldest week of the year, but New York was a winter dance festival. In the space of seven days, some 60,000 people jammed the city's theaters to watch a worldwide assortment of performers. For undemanding viewers, a group called the Siberian Dancers and Singers of Omsk lit up Carnegie Hall with the bounding energy of mad Russian muzhiks-despite several ammonia bottles planted by activists protesting Soviet antiSemitism. More passive dance fans turned up at the New York State Theater to watch homegrown Master George Balanchine and his New York City Ballet hold their own against...
...Most strong college teams usually have some weaknesses at one of the three weapons and N.Y.U. is no exception. Its weak weapon is the saber, where it has only one All-American, one Easterns finalist, and one man who beat Cetrulo, the Crimson's best Siberian last year...
When Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years in a Siberian labor camp, he requested only one kind of reading matter: books by Dickens. In mid-19th century New York, ships arriving with the latest installment of Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop were met by anxious cries from the dock: "Is Little Nell dead...