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...when George Schuster was working for the E. R. Thomas Motor Co. of Buffalo, his boss sent him on a trip to Paris. There was one catch. George had to go by car, via California and Siberia, as a contestant in the longest auto race ever...
Chicago to Siberia. For all the new jets, many of Wien Alaska's 81 pilots will continue to fly De Havilland Otters and Harland Skyvans. Their cargo may include anything from a load of snaggle-horned reindeer to groceries for Catholic missions at Eskimo villages on the Chuckchee Sea. Among their touchdown locations: Goodnews Bay, site of a platinum mine, and Katmai, where N.C.A. owns a world-famous trout camp. In 1967, Wien hauled some 5,000 passengers on its packaged Arctic tour, winding up at the line's Kotzebue Hotel location...
...Already merged are Cordova with Alaska Airlines, which now plans to take over small Alaska Coastal Airlines. Seeing this trend toward bigness among the competition, Chairman Petersen and President Sigurd Wien, the only family member still active, are seeking to expand the new line's routes to nearby Siberia and faraway Chicago...
...marries the would-be poet, but he fails. Thirteen years later, the situation is reversed. To compound the confusion, the cast is as incorrigibly British (Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Ian McShane) as the play is Russian. This particular brand of Soviet drama should have been exiled to Siberia...
...deeply significant, lest-we-forget book. It recalls the days-and nightmares-of purges, when millions of innocent and apolitical Russians, caught up in the maelstrom of Stalin's paranoia, were brutally executed or jailed or swept across the continent into the slave-labor camps of Siberia...