Word: 50th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, Moscow had been hinting at new space spectaculars to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. When a brand-new spacecraft called Soyuz 1 was launched into orbit last week carrying veteran Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, 40, it seemed certain that the first manned Soviet flight since March 1965 was aimed at overtaking and even surpassing the faltering U.S. Apollo program. Barely 24 hours later, Komarov was dead, killed in a crash landing that may ground the Russian man-in-space program for months...
...politics instead of counseling him to stay above the battle. Whenever the King's shiny Rolls-Royce is seen outside his mother's villa, the press almost invariably reports it as cloak-and-dagger news. Last week, just before the coup, King Constantine and his wife celebrated Frederika's 50th birthday at a private lunch at the villa, where she lives with Princess Irene, 24. Her other daughter, Sophia, is married to Juan Carlos, son of the pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Juan...
...island of Madeira, 535 miles southwest of Lisbon; it has always had splendid accommodations, but its new airport opened 18 months ago, and the new accessibility guarantees new popularity. Portugal's biggest draw of the season will be the tiny village of Fatima, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Virgin Mary's appearance to three shepherd's children. Tens of thousands of pilgrims are expected in Fatima, but getting satisfactory accommodations is going to be almost as miraculous as the event the pilgrims have come to celebrate: the town has a scant 5,000 beds...
...citizen who was once jailed in Prague: "From my cellmates, I understand the country is cultivating good restaurants, picturesque cities and reasonably good hotels. I hear they're really catering to Americans." Despite his own unhappy experience, Kazan heartily recommends a visit. Soviet Russia, this year celebrating the 50th anniversary of its revolution, expects 2,000,000 visitors (about 40,000 of them Americans), and is laying on 140 special trains and extra Aeroflot flights...
...which would have been John Kennedy's 50th birthday, the Post Office Department will issue a 13? stamp bearing his likeness, a photograph taken during the 1960 campaign. A part of the department's "prominent-American series," the stamp carries a 13? value so that it may circulate widely abroad as the postage on one-half ounce of international surface mail...