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...repeat it. You can't get into any trouble with us." The Russian thought for a long time, then he said, "Dalstroy." "Dalstroy," cried the Poles. "That's not a funny story. That's one of your biggest slave-labor projects in Siberia." "That's right," said the Russian, "but some tellers of very funny stories helped to build...
...Russians] want to send their scientists to Siberia because they do not make the cold facts of sciences, such as genetics, support Soviet political theories, I condemn it as inhuman; but I don't think it imperils our security . . . What I think we would need to fear would be an open-minded, tolerant and inquiring Soviet Union, thirsting for truth...
...proudly reported that they had already reached their production goals for 1948 and were taking on more. Comrade Ilichev, secretary of the Altai committee of the Komsomol, was in dutch because there had been a drop in membership in his area, and the secretary of another group, in Barnaul, Siberia, had just had his knuckles rapped for organizing a bourgeois kissing game of postoffice one evening. On the whole, however, the jubilee tone was one of Soviet satisfaction. Moscow announced that the Komsomol (for youths 15 to 25) now numbered 9,000,000 members...
Engineer Brown first got alarmed when he heard that woolly mammoths had been found frozen in Siberia. Their healthy appearance and the good cold-storage quality of their flesh indicated, he says, that they must have been "quick-frozen" like Birdseye peas...
Obviously, concludes Brown, the earth's poles were once in different places. Siberia was warm, and the mammoths fattened on greenery. But little by little, ice accumulated near the cold poles. Then, to balance the mass of the ice, slightly off center, the earth toppled over. The oceans sloshed out of their beds. When things quieted down, the earth was a sad mess, rotating on a new axis. The North Pole, settling near Siberia, quick-froze the mammoths...