Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle has a mystical control over the atmosphere, and last week's performance in Russia confirmed it-climatically and politically. From the moment his tricolored, twin-flagged (French and Soviet) Caravelle touched down at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport to his week's end sortie into Siberia, De Gaulle trailed sparks and portents like a comet. Europe and the world scrutinized each move, each speech, each communique and each symbol for an indication of De Gaulle's intentions...
With that, De Gaulle took off on a 6,200-mile swing through Russia that was less political than it was crowd pleasing. In Novosibirsk-"the Chicago of Siberia"-fully half of the city's 1,000,000 residents turned out to greet the French leader. Accompanied by Podgorny and Zorin, De Gaulle inspected power plants and electrical-equipment factories, then stalked through Akademgorodok, a seven-year-old academic city of 37,000, which gave him the opportunity to strike again on the anvil of Franco-Russian cultural rapprochement. "How can one forget," he said, "that the great academy...
...Russians have laid out a split-second itinerary for le grand Charles: he stops first at Moscow for two days, then Siberia's Novosibirsk, then Leningrad and next Volgograd, nee Stalingrad. There, the Russians imply, he may see "something no foreigner has ever seen before" - probably a Soviet missile site. Ultimately, De Gaulle will return to Moscow for the grand finale...
...Private Siberia. Though slowed by age, surviving members go on doing their assigned chores. In the colony's crafts shop last week, Frank Rosetta, 73, and Reg Herbison, 81, were still making picture frames and statuettes for the tourists. From her apartment in "Jerusalem," one of the House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years. They do not expect to wait too long for the Millennium, when they will be among God's 144,000 elect, as King...
Under his firm rule, it was from the start an autarchic colony, raising its own vegetarian food supplies, running its private bakery, print shop and greenhouses. For a time, the colony even had its own Siberia, a Lake Michigan island to which backsliders were banished to brood on their sins. Since man was evil, members could marry but were supposed to remain celibate-notwithstanding King Ben's example...