Diamonds Spur Siberia Development Amid Diamond Boom
Dickering reports say diamond discoveries along the Lena River in Yakut come as the Soviet Union scales up production to about nine million carats annually. Settlements grow as new towns rise and farms form though vast challenges persist without roads or thawed permafrost.
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Siberia
No Man’s Land
Soviet Union
Yakut
Lena River
Dawson City
Klondike
Fairbanks
Alaska
Short Wave Transmitters and Jamming Battle
Radio Free Europe uses 27 short wave transmitters to reach Poland Hungary Romania Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria against Soviet jamming. Propagation and the ionosphere give twilight immunity as RFE seeks clearer signals through interference.
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Radio Free Europe
Bez
Salls
Leinwell
RFE
Poland
Hungary
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Crusade For Freedom
Portugal
West Germany
Levi
Earth
Russia
Uss.r
U.S S.R
Russia’s 1960 fashions showcased by USSR in three pages
Francis Lewine reports Soviet style setters pool ideas at annual shows. Moscow’s Central Fashion House designs about 3,000 mass-produced styles yearly and 24 fashion houses operate in large cities. The USSR piece notes dress belting, wide collars, fur trims, varied footwear, and a trend toward both evening wear and practical coats, with foreign fashion influence acknowledged.
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Francis Lewine
Washington
Russia
Soviet Union
Exchange
Ussr
Central
Lyudmila Turchanovskaya
Moscow
Leningrad
Kiev
Rigas
Who Is Kerensky? Man Who Set Up Only Soviet Republic
A reprint profile outlines Alexander Kerensky as Russia’s brief 1917 head of the provisional government and wartime leader. It notes his role in the February revolution, clashes with Kornilov, the 1917 Russian Republic proclamation, exile trips to London Paris and the United States, and current work at the Hoover Institute on War and Peace.
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Sterling Advocate
Portia Lubchenco
Sterling
Kerensky
Alexander Kerensky
Russia
Karensky
sRuskie
Slovia
Moscow
America
Yeas
Kébensky
Hoover Institute
Stanford University
Labor Party
Duma
Prince George Evgenievich Lvov
Lavar Georgievich Kornilov
Kornilov
Riga
Tardily Kerensky
Leon Trotsky
Nikolai Lenin
London
Paris
Dni
United States
Palo Alté
Calif
Editor notes reveal growing Western view of Soviet life
Exclusive Tass and Ogonyok pictures distributed by AP illuminate Soviet life for Western readers. The note emphasizes gradual widening of the Soviet world’s secrecy and the role of photo material in shaping perception.
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Soviet Union
Tass
Ogonyok
Associated Press
Thieves Steal Dimes From Laundromat in San Diego
Fred Gaier caught two thieves who fled with dimes from coin operated washing machines after he could not call police from a pay phone. The note mentions the broader context of extinctions since 1869 with the dodo.
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San Diego
Fred Gaier
Wheat Growers to Begin New Information Series
Nebraska Wheat Commission announces a public information push led by Carson Smith to tell the wheat story. The Kernel Wheat symbol will headline weekly TV programs starting the week of February 15 on KOLN TV KHOL TV and KHPL TV. A bi monthly newsletter will go to 85 000 growers and landlords outlining commission activities.
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Nebraska
Carson Smith
Ogallala
Nebraska Wheat Commission
Smith
Robert Florell
State Department of Agriculture and Inspection
Koln - TV
Lincoln
Khol-Tv
Holdrege
Khpl TV
Hayes Center
Florell
Nebraska Wheat Growers
Wheat Commission
First Jet Passenger Service Opens London to Johannesburg
The world's first jet passenger service was inaugurated in May 1952 linking London and Johannesburg marking a milestone in commercial aviation.
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London
Johannesburg
Russians speed up farming in Khrushchev plan aims
AP describes winter work as collective farms diversify year round production to catch up with U S agriculture. Krasnaya Volga district farms now produce potatoes milk and beef. Despite strides since World War I Russian output lags behind American per cow production and manpower constraints hinder efficiency.
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Isi
Krasnaya
Volgusa
Olf
Moscow
United’ States
Emilee
Pepe
Colbseatvé
Kiev
Aroi
Stalino
Dnieper
TAPS FOR WAR AND NOTES ON HISTORY
A newspaper snippet lists taps for a war day at Ohio State University and mentions a former student. It recalls Alexander von Humboldt a close Jefferson friend who wrote Cosmos a 1317 page science volume. It notes East West Germany boundary cutting towns and a salt mine near Helmstedt. It cites the 1769 French powered road vehicle as a forerunner of the automobile.
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Ohio
Euithe
State “University
Itor
uThe
Alexander * ‘von Humboldt
Thomas Jefferson
East
West Germany
Helmstedt
Germany
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