Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days later, the Georgian tribesman in the Kremlin, who was known to like raspberries, put a ripe one in his mouth. Betrayed by one of the writers in Pasternak's parlor, Mandelstam was arrested on Stalin's personal order and banished to Siberia. His poetry was suppressed and is still almost entirely unknown in the Soviet Union, while in the West his reputation has been obscured by trite translations...
...million annually, a volume 10% greater than Japan's trade with Britain. Last week, after prolonged negotiations, a four-man team of Soviet aviation experts stood by in Tokyo, ready to initial an agreement establishing the first commercial air service between Moscow and Tokyo, by way of Siberia...
...that led finally to the Bolshevik Revolution. But had Alexander really died? Last week in Moscow, a Soviet writer once again exhumed a 140-year-old legend that Alexander faked his death, then took up a 39-year life of humble repentance as a wandering starets (holy man) in Siberia...
...requires too much space and sunshine to be practical almost anywhere else. Though not economical for seawater conversion, electrodialysis, in which electrically charged cellulose-acetate membranes attract the impurities, is being used to convert less salty but brackish waters. Still another method involves freezing. As a youth in Siberia, Alexander Zarchin, an Israeli engineer, became fascinated by the fact that he could drink melted water from the ice of salty seas. In freezing, he learned, the ice crystals form separately from the brine, then melt down as fresh water. One important advantage of this kind of desalinization is that...
...stovepipe hat, a moustache to twirl and gnomish assistant (Peter Falk), he is forever launching devilish devices against Leslie and forever being Foiled Again. Natalie Wood is a pert, cigar-puffing suffragette who goes along as girl reporter on the great automobile race from New York tp Paris, via Siberia...