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Last week Khrushchev unexpectedly invited Thompson and his wife to a farewell dinner at Khrushchev's private dacha. For three hours, they drank toasts, ate their way through eight courses including Siberian pheasant and Kamchaka crab, "more or less covered the waterfront" on diplomatic issues. "We have a very free and easy relationship," said Thompson. "He scolds me and I scold...
Adding on Inches. Son of a Siberian coal-mining engineer, Brumel had never competed in a major international meet before the 1960 Olympics. At 6 ft. 1 in., he was considered too small to be a threat to such towering kangaroos as World Record Holder John Thomas of the U.S. (6 ft. 5½ in. tall); coaches still held to the idea that the highest anyone could jump was about one foot above his own head. At Rome, Brumel jumped that foot, beat Thomas with a leap of 7 ft. 1 in., and he has been adding on new inches...
...that cold in Russia? Are their snowdrops really blue? Ours, Galanthus nivalis, are definitely white. The flowers shown by Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin are known to us as Scilla sibirica, or Siberian squill...
...Siberian Roots. Poets in particular have won greater latitude than they have enjoyed since the early, heady days of the Revolution. From medieval times, when illiterate peasants listened spellbound to wandering "reciters," the intellectual Russians have always revered poets above potentates. Among them-from Pushkin, who died "invoking freedom in an age of fear," to Pasternak, who, at the cost of much personal bravery, was almost the only writer of his generation to deride Stalin's shibboleths-have been Russia's most impassioned foes of injustice. Evgeny Evtushenko, the most famed and gifted young poet in Russia today...
...followed Czar Alexander II's assassination in 1881, Great-Grandfather Joseph Evtushenko was banished from the Ukraine as a suspected subversive, died on the grueling 3,500-mile trek to eastern Siberia. Joseph's 18 children settled finally in Zima, a bleak lumber station on the trans-Siberian railroad, where Zhenya was born in 1933. Son of a concert singer and a geologist father. Zhenya spent his early childhood in the old quarter of Moscow. There he lived with his gifted, handsome mother Zinaida and her father, a grizzled artilleryman who was a lieutenant general when he vanished...