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...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...
...burst out of the woods, plunged into a suburban swimming pool and splashed madly back and forth before finally being rescued by amused firemen. While Moscow shivered under cold blasts from the north that plunged temperatures into the mid-30s and brought topcoats out of summer storage, the Siberian city of Verkhoyansk-the coldest spot on earth, with temperatures in winter dipping to -140°-sweltered in 86° heat...
...have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it." Thus his trip represented a once-in-a-lifetime act of massive self-indulgence, plus the chance to experience firsthand "the trains with the bewitching names: the Orient Express, the North Star, the Trans-Siberian." As an added bonus, the trips threw him together with several novels' worth of offbeat characters...
...million for Saudi Arabia), domestic and Eastern European demand will outstrip output by 1980. The Soviet Union and its Comecon partners are already importing small quantities of high-priced Middle Eastern oil, mainly from Iraq, Iran and Libya. Hence the Soviets are in a rush to develop new Siberian fields. They must invest lavishly in expensive Western equipment and drill in a remote region where operating costs will be high...