Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...serious problem: despite the use of grain alcohol, an old but effective deicer, the windshields of MIG-25 Foxbat interceptors were icing up. What had gone wrong? The answer, according to Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko: Soviet crew chiefs on the ground were drinking the grain alcohol to relieve Siberian boredom and surreptitiously replacing the liquid with water...
...book Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, which prophesied the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. as a result of internal upheaval and war with China. Over the past decade this and other writings published only in the West cost Amalrik two terms in concentration camps and two stretches of Siberian exile. After his return a year ago from eastern Siberia, he was offered the choice of publicly repudiating his book or exile. Refusing to do either, he was placed under constant KGB surveillance, frequently picked up, interrogated and threatened. Finally he agreed to go West. His departure, originally scheduled...
...call it a fake, to point out that the blood on Koloff's head came from a plastic pouch concealed in his trunks, or that the two wrestlers probably rehearsed for weeks the choreography of this championship bout. When Bruno delivers the flying drop kick or Koloff applies the Siberian sleeper hold, art and reality begin to merge, even for the Harvard cynics to my left and right...
...Crimson turned the lights out for the visitors in the first half with a 46 point deluge that left the Judgettes about as much chance of reviving as a sputtering candle in a Siberian blizzard...
...attempt both to record and to foretell Baker's behavior, geologists are trying to emulate the Russians, who recently correctly predicted a volcanic eruption on the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka. The scientists have installed seismographs on the mountain's flanks to detect the tremors that are believed to precede an eruption and set up instruments to measure the flow and the temperatures of gases escaping from the fumaroles. They are also using sensitive tiltmeters to determine if the mountain is swelling, a phenomenon that could presage an eruption...