Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...doubted last week that man at last was nearly ready to launch himself boldly and bodily into space. When, a fortnight ago, the U.S.S.R.'s 10,143-lb. "flying zoo" floated gently to a landing before the startled eyes of peasants on a collective farm northeast of the Caspian Sea, Russia demonstrated unquestionably that it has mastered the techniques necessary to rocket a man into orbit around the earth and bring him back alive...
...storms began in early April, when hot, dry winds off the Central Asian plateau, melting the skimpy snow cover, swept across a 1,500-mile belt extending from the Caspian Sea through the Caucasus, southern Ukraine and Crimea to Moldavia. The parched earth turned to dust, then rose in sun-obscuring clouds...
Although every Communist propagandist from Stettin to Pyongyang stressed the peaceful purposes of the Pacific tests, the shots would have obvious military value. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from their bases near the Caspian and Aral seas, they would be testing at 7,700-mile range plus as compared with the best 6,300-mile range of the U.S.'s Atlas, hence nailing down a longer strategic reach. If the Russians fired into the Central Pacific from Kamchatka at 3,800-mile range, they would at least be testing out their capabilities in a range bordered...