Word: urals
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...School Lie. Leonhard finally came of age in what was surely the world's weirdest school. Even its name was a lie. The No. 101 Technical School for Agricultural Economy at Kushnarenkovo in the Ural region was not what it seemed to be-the boys would never cheer for Good Old Ag. Tech. It was a front name for a Comintern school, training foreign Communists to take over in their old homelands when the Russians won the war. The first odd thing about Tom Red's schooldays was that the hero had to change his name (he chose...
...their Slavic neighbors in the Balkans, and of all Europe's peoples are related only to the Finns and Estonians. Latecomers to Central Europe, fierce fighters and skillful horsemen, they were driven southward over the centuries from their early home on the slopes of Siberia's Ural Mountains, and in 895, under the leadership of their tribal chief Arpad, crossed over the Carpathian Mountains into the great plain that is now Hungary...
...Lack of cultural opportunities throughout the Soviet Union is forcing young people to "turn to the church for consolation," complained Pravda. Particularly in the Ural area, Pravda admitted, "the influence of local churchmen is becoming increasingly strong...
...Lower House, the Deputies (all of them nominated by the Communist Party and elected unopposed) then began to debate the Bulganin pension plan. A comrade from hot Turkmenistan argued that people in hot climates ought to retire earlier and get pensions sooner (laughter), but a comrade from the chilly Ural Mountains countered that the hardy cold-weather Russians deserved even better from the republic. Several delegates observed that they did not like Bulganin's plan for 15% lower pensions for country dwellers (on the theory that countryfolk had little gardens and presumably would not go hungry...
...story, added hopefully that there was some evidence that the Chinese Communists had"laid their pistol down," and that "it might be possible to clear up now some of these practical matters between us." Knock on the U.N. Door. The man sent to investigate was Kansas-born U. (for Ural) Alexis Johnson, 46, an old Far Eastern hand now serving as U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. A husky six-footer, Johnson spent half a year in a Japanese internment camp in Manchuria and last year, at the Indo-China peace conference in Geneva, opened the first round of negotiations...