Word: artillerymen
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...long kiss he got from Premier Khrushchev seemed even more active than Valentina's warm embrace. Other dignitaries greeted the cosmonaut in their turn. Then, in a column of flower-decked cars, the official party drove slowly toward Red Square and a 20-gun salute from Red artillerymen...
...deputy Defense Minister and alternate member of the Communist Party Central Committee. Nedelin defended Moscow's western front during the German attack of 1941, later in the war shifted to the Ukraine (where he first gained favor with Khrushchev) and rose swiftly but anonymously through the ranks of artillerymen until Khrushchev casually revealed his top spot last May, after Russian rockets allegedly hit their biggest target: the U-2 piloted by Francis Gary Powers. Hailed at the time by the Premier as "a remarkable soldier . . . who knows more about rocketry than anybody." Nedelin's ashes were buried with...
...keep hands off Cuba-an ultimatum Castro has been asking him to issue. Soviet rocket tests in the Pacific, said Khrushchev, proved that Russia could accurately hit the U.S. interior. He blustered on: "Now the U.S. is not so unreachable as it once was. Speaking concretely, Soviet artillerymen can support with their rocket fire the Cuban people if aggressive forces in the Pentagon dare to start intervention against Cuba." What is more, said Khrushchev, "we will help our Cuban brothers by causing the failure of the economic blockade declared against Cuba...
Infantile Jeers. Last week, when President Eisenhower flew to Formosa, Peking demonstrated its view of peaceful coexistence by likening Eisenhower to "a rat running across the street; everyone wants to step on him and squash him." As Red artillerymen threw shells of "contempt" on Chinese Nationalist positions at Quemoy, they shouted (according to Radio Peking): "Eisenhower, go back. Fire! U.S. aggressors, get out of Formosa. Fire! Get out of Japan. Fire! Get out of Korea. Fire! Get out of Asia. Fire! We shall liberate Formosa. Fire...
...horse-drawn landau, preceded by 22 lance-bearing Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen, wheeled one afternoon last week through the gates of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. A guard of honor, red jackets snug in the nippy 25° wind, clicked to attention; half a mile away artillerymen fired off the first booming 105-mm shot of their 21-gun salute...