Word: tatars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once we rode up into the mountains to spend a weekend with a Tatar family in their hill yurt and had mare's milk and rode Kazak horses. Another day we went out to photograph all the local racial types-Chinese, White Russians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Uigurs, Manchus, Kazaks, So-lun. Each group decided to honor the visitors from America with a groaning banquet of its own foods in absolutely unrestrained Oriental quantities...
...packed in food until we thought we would burst and managed to wade through five races, photographing as we went, but we caved in before the Tatar banquet...
...embassies had been evacuated from Moscow. Usually they were denied, but at week's end U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt admitted that he was keeping only a skeleton staff with him in Moscow, that the rest of the staff had been moved to Kazan, 450 miles east, the longtime Tatar capital near the upper Volga some 400 miles west of the Urals. It looked as if far Kazan would be the next Soviet capital if Moscow was evacuated...
...Land Without Laughter. Real name of Ahmad Kamal is Cimarron Hathaway, 28, redheaded, scimitar-scarred. Great-grandson of a Tatar chieftain, he spent most of his childhood on U. S. Indian reservations, where his German-born mother did tribal research...