Word: streaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moscow on Aviation Day, all roads lead to Tushino. Even before dawn, thousands of streetcars and buses stream towards the huge airfield twelve miles from the city's heart. By 11 a.m. one day last month, 500,000 people blotted out the flag-decked stands, overflowed on to nearby railroad embankments. In the reviewing stand, flanked by his Politburo, stood Joseph Stalin himself. The Soviet national anthem blared out over the plain. "Dear Comrades, Muscovites," crackled the loudspeakers, "the festival of Stalin's aviation has started...
...DIVIDING STREAM (312 pp.)-Francis King-Morrow...
...plot, The Dividing Stream adds up to little more than an emotional tempest in a cracked teacup. Atmospherically, English Novelist Francis King, 28, does better. In dozens of pungent little Florentine sketches, ranging from cynical policemen to bent-double washerwomen, he evokes the passion and poverty of the people. Most memorable: two scrubby street urchins who think and move with an artless, pagan ease which suggests that the good life, and not a twisted packet of "problems," is man's rightful heritage...
...many battles were fought in the North, but a year of U.N. air bombardment and the exactions of the hard-pressed Communist armies have ravaged the land. The refugees who still stream southward from the "People's Republic" tell of North Korean farmers eating rice seedlings, grass and bark...
...Gulf Stream is a recent development-a mere 60 million years...