Word: siberias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even worse, the Cygnians' laser-beamed response packed far too powerful a punch. When it hit the earth's atmosphere, high above central Siberia, its tremendous energy became a tremendous bomb. It blasted a group of craters 15 miles across and knocked men flat more than 30 miles away...
Incredible Crash. Is this what really happened? Yes it is, say Russian Science Writers Genrikh Saulovich Altov and Valentina Nikolaevna Zhuravlyova. It is their carefully detailed attempt to account for the incredible crash that rocked the Tungus region of Siberia over half a century ago. Something certainly landed on the Tungus. The craters are there, and men still remember the blast...
Back in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev's risky gamble on the Virgin Lands seemed to be paying off, the Soviet ruler gleefully gibed at Western predictions that his pet scheme for plowing up 100 million acres of marginal land in Siberia and Kazakhstan could never solve Russia's chronic food shortage. "He laughs best who laughs last," chuckled Khrushchev. "So let us laugh at how these sorry forecasters have miscalculated...
...Russian government's gold reserves ever run out, it can always call on LIDIA SKOBLIKOVA, a dimpled, blonde schoolteacher from Siberia, who is going to need help from Brinks to get her winnings home. Speed Skater Skobli-kova, 24, won two gold medals at Squaw Valley in 1960. Last week she won three more, sweeping the 500 meters, the 1,000 meters and the 1,500 meters, setting Olympic records in all three races. "Now cut out that kissing," gasped Lidia, as teammates swarmed round to congratulate...
...easy to see why: The Soviet Union is in many ways an underdeveloped country itself. Young people can find all the excitement and challenge they want at home, without joining a Peace Corps and going to Africa. Peter had worked for two summers in the "Virgin Lands" in Siberia. "The first time I went because I was a Komsomol member and they told me it was my duty," he said. "But the second time I went because I wanted to. I had seen something I liked there: a better side of life, a cleaner side of people that comes...