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World War I: Drafted into the Austrian imperial army, he was a good soldier, won the regimental fencing championship. He was promoted to sergeant major, posted to the Russian front, badly wounded by a cavalryman's lance, captured and sent to Siberia. As a P.W., Tito learned Russian, married his first wife, Pelaghia, got caught up in the Red Revolution. He joined the International Red Guard, became a Communist...
Khrushchev's blundering attempts to meet the agricultural crisis (for which Georgy Malenkov took the rap last February) have not helped significantly. In some areas of Siberia farmers are reported deserting the collectives to set up independent farms, or to join roving work gangs, where they probably eat better. To curb this kind of deviation, Minister of Internal Affairs Sergei Kruglov last month took a swing through Kazakhstan, one of the principal collective farm areas, with a posse of MVD police...
Included in the Center's reports are isolated examples of occasions which show the power of love against aggression and enmity. "At Pee, Siberia," Sorokin recorded, "during the famine, a young relief worker assigned to drive oxcarts over robber-ridden roads, refused a military escort. When robbers did stop him, he asked them to help him transport the food to the starving people. Instead of attacking him, they helped...
...could deny that Claverly is now more appealing than it was several years ago as a local Siberia. Fortunately, the University has wiped away this stigma by filling Claverly with good tutors and high-ranking students. But even the fact that some of these students choose to remain in Claverly after the sophomore year can not hide the disadvantages of physical separation from the Houses. Despite several arrangements for breakfast at nearby Adams and Lowell, Eliot and Winthrop men must still make early morning treks to the river, and for other meals, all Clverly residents must go to their...
While all this was going on, Minister of Electric Power Stations Malenkov (whose failure to show up at one of those big Moscow gatherings of the clans set off rumors that he had already been dropped dead) was reported far away in Siberia, making the rounds of power plants, getting more experience...