Try this one...
On this Q6 parallel, a supertechnology was invented in 1937. This supertech was an engine that ran on the static electricity in the air. This "Air Engine" as it was called, came to the attention of a schoolmate of
Eleanor Roosevelt. As soon as Eleanor knew of it
F.D.R. was told. The "Air Engines" were a major factor in WWII. If nothing else, the airplanes powered by "Air Engines" had effective ranges of 25,000 miles, with maintenance and pilot endurance as the main limits.
As the "Air Engine" soon after the war made fossil fuel obsolete, both the U.S.S.R. and Southwest Asia were of greatly reduced importance. Europe recovered far more quickly in this parallel.
Because of the massive importance of the "Air Engine" science education is both far more popular with young people and governments are far more willing to finance both education and scientific research. This doesn't please Centrum. They see this world as taking a turn toward exotic science and radical schemes. The very sort of world where the physics of reality jumping could and will be figured out. They've decided on a last war by any possible means.
This TL7^ world, (in some areas TL7+1^) is experiencing the year 1963, although the technology is more like 1973, the Mana level is Low.
J.F.K. and
Brezhnev who replaced
Khrushchev four years early are leading the USA and the U.S.S.R. respectively.
Basically, this is a superspy and conspiracy world. Centrum plans to eliminate
Oswald and kill Kennedy themselves framing
Castro for the murder. If that doesn't work, they've got a dozen
Blofeld wanna-be's in the wings waiting to create an incident.