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Four top Soviet spacemen visited the Iowa City laboratory of Professor James A. Van Allen, discoverer of Van Allen radiation. Addressing an audience of scientists and Iowa students, Academician Leonid I. Sedov gave a detailed report on the trajectories of Soviet moon shots. In response to questioning, he said that the Russians also had rocket failures. He denied rumors that they have put a man in space and said that they will not even try until three conditions exist: that the man will be safe in space, will return to earth safely, and will be able to do tasks beyond...
Word from the Moon. The Russians seemed eager to be cooperative and, except when military matters were touched on, surprisingly willing to describe Soviet discoveries in space rocketry. At a Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, Academician Anatoly A. Blagonravov told in precise scientific terms how Lunik III was oriented by small gas jets to take its famous pictures of the far side of the moon (TIME, Nov. 9). Physicist Valerian I. Krasovsky gave a summary of scientific information that Soviet space shots have gathered so far. The Russians also showed a 25-minute movie of the behavior...
...been elected to Herriot's vacant seat in the Académie Française. Wearing the academy's braided uniform and cocked hat and with a sword dangling awkwardly at his side, Rostand, as custom requires, used his acceptance speech to eulogize the academician whose place he took. Herriot's last moments, according "to certain witnesses," said Rostand, were not "in harmony with his whole life." He went on to censure the "passions" that created the contradiction "between the words of the man standing and the murmurs of the man recumbent." Novelist Jules (Men of Good...
...Academy) had asked him through intermediaries to postpone "a candidacy that, at present, still provokes too much partisan hatred." What really decided Morand, said Paris gossip, was the warning that De Gaulle would not receive him, if and when it came time for Morand to make the newly elected academician's traditional call on the President of the Republic...
Speaking with the deliberateness of an academician but the incisiveness of a lawyer, Munoz yesterday explained to those assembled in his top-floor suite at the Statler-Hilton that he considered himself a Federalist, but of a new kind. Puerto Rico is allied with the United States in the framework of a larger and looser federal structure than the one originally conceived of in the Union, he feels. "We have initiated a contribution of a new and different kind in the American constitutional system. It is the first new development since the thirteen original states. We want...