Word: andrian
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...first cosmonaut to blast off was Major Andrian Grigorievich Nikolaev, 32, a country boy from the Volga valley who had been the standby for both Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov on their previous orbital flights. Soon after he was aloft in his spaceship Vostok III, Nikolaev, or "Falcon," as he called himself during radio transmission to the earth, was in touch with Soviet tracking stations and trawlers at sea packed with electronic gear, including some close by the U.S. east coast. U.S. and other Western radio monitors heard Nikolaev's voice loud and clear. Every 88 minutes, Vostok...
Pennsylvania will send four men. There are E. Andrian Teaf and William Stinson in the 50 and 100-yard free style swims, Walter Grandy in the fancy diving and John Merriam in the 150-yard medley swim, Merriam, Grandy, Teaf, and Stinson also will swim in the 200-yard relay...