Word: siberians
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...redistribution of Russian interpreters. Delays of delivery from Russia might indicate that Moscow is parceling out its supplies slowly to make sure that China does not grow too self-sufficient too fast. A likelier explanation is that Russia has some priority problems of its own, and that the Trans-Siberian Railroad is overburdened because of the Korean war and the U.N. blockade of China...
Actually, the only substantial disadvantage to Claverly has been its Siberian stigma. The rooms are as good, and the walk to classes actually shorter than from the Houses. But because Claverly in recent years has been filled with cast-offs from the House Selection process, the idea across that the "outhousers" were to be scorned...
...handsome examples (opposite) are the gold and lapis lazuli egg, with a miniature portrait of Czarevitch Alexis, given by Nicholas II to his Czarina in 1912; the fabulous rock crystal egg (at top), which contains a revolving gallery of twelve gold-framed miniatures capped with a perfect, 27-karat Siberian emerald; and the engraved gold egg which opens to eight painted panels showing favorite imperial charities...
...early teens, Mikhail Soloviev served as mascot to Budenny's Red cavalry. Later he was sent to school to be molded into one of Stalin's new Soviet leaders. He became a writer for Izvestia, the government paper, first as Siberian correspondent and then as Kremlin reporter. Soloviev got to know most of the big shots, including Big Brother himself, but when the purges came, he was fired and packed off to an outlying province...
...splendid fellow named Masdak was proclaiming to his native Persia that "private property is the root of hatred and strife between men . . . the cause of all evil and bad. Communism is applied religion ..." In 1492, of course, Columbus discovered America, but in the Peters book the founding of the Siberian town of Sibir rated as much space...