Word: vladivostok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron ore, are discreetly left in the background or totally ignored.* But in the last fortnight, as he meandered through Siberia on his way home to Moscow from Peking, Khrushchev could not avoid seeing for himself that his country was still far from the wonderland of the yearbooks. At Vladivostok, citizens flooded him with letters of complaint about inadequate housing and consumer goods shortages. To his open anger, Khrushchev also discovered that the local commissars had dressed up their normally bare shopwindows especially for his visit. Last week, hard on the heels of Nikita's arrival in Moscow...
...hard-to-get goods in greatest demand, such as automobiles, refrigerators and TV sets, were conspicuously missing from the credit list. And lest the Russian shopper think that the consumer millennium is just around the corner, Premier Khrushchev, on his way back to Moscow from Peking, told a Vladivostok audience that the U.S.S.R. has no intention of trying to equal U.S. automobile output. "We will use automobiles more rationally than the Americans do," he said. "We are going to establish taxi pools, where people can use cars when they need them. Why should a man worry about parking space...
...planning to make a four-day visit to satellite Poland on the way back to the U.S. In a sense, Khrushchev had himself to blame for Nixon's decision to visit Poland. Nixon had asked for permission to fly across Siberia and visit the Pacific port of Vladivostok, returning to the U.S. by way of Alaska, but the Kremlin vetoed that plan. After that, Nixon decided to accept a longstanding offer from the government of Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka to visit Poland...
...turn and closed with nearly 500 guns blazing. The Russian ships, which had damaged three major enemy ships, failed to score a single hit after the first bloody half-hour. Only one Russian auxiliary cruiser-a converted yacht - and two small 350-ton destroyers made their way through to Vladivostok...
...emphasized last week as 1,000 delegates from 40 countries met at Harrogate, England, to bring the world closer to conformity on everything from screw threads to nuclear reactors. Eventually, their decisions will have repercussions from the board rooms of Krupp to the Kremlin, affect housewives from Minneapolis to Vladivostok...