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Eastward over Siberia, and then out over the Pacific, soared a Soviet ballistic missile last week, headed for a target area 1,000 miles southwest of Pearl Harbor. Next day an announcement from Moscow echoed round the world: Soviet ship-borne scientists stationed in the area had determined that the missile traveled 12,500 kilometers (7,762 miles) from its launching site and landed less than two kilometers (1.24 miles) from the precalculated target point...
...great many young Tokyo actresses." In the political arguments that raged at school, young Kishi emerged as a conservative and a fiery nationalist. His hero was Kita Ikki, a right-wing radical who wanted Japan run by a military junta and called for the conquest of Manchuria and Siberia. Kishi was less happy about Ikki's attacks on private property and free enterprise; when some of Ikki's thugs tried to beat up a professor whose opinions they disliked, Kishi withdrew as a disciple...
...John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The author of Inside Russia Today turns his TV eye to Siberia, shows on film the operation of the trans-Siberian railway, the diamond mines at Yakutia, the emerging wealth and power of the region east of the Urals...
...confidence" in the 180-station control system. The U.S.-British position was that no control system at all might be better than one that lulled the West into an illusion of security, behind which its enemies might test on, the explosions muffled in huge caverns in the depths of Siberia, secret and undetectable...
...steel, coal and cotton textiles, while the U.S. lost ground; absolute production figures, which show the U.S. far ahead in every important industrial and mining product except coal and iron ore, are discreetly left in the background or totally ignored.* But in the last fortnight, as he meandered through Siberia on his way home to Moscow from Peking, Khrushchev could not avoid seeing for himself that his country was still far from the wonderland of the yearbooks. At Vladivostok, citizens flooded him with letters of complaint about inadequate housing and consumer goods shortages. To his open anger, Khrushchev also discovered...