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...explodes Nikita Khrushchev. "We sent the astronaut Titov up there and he looked all over and didn't see it anywhere...
...pages, contains 450,000 v. 600,000 entries. Gone are the gazetteer, the biographical dictionary, and 100,000 obsolete or nonlexical terms, such as the names of characters in Dickens. In are 100,000 brand-new terms, from astronaut, beatnik, boo-boo, countdown, den mother and drip-dry, to footsie, hard sell, mccarthyism, no-show, schlemiel, sit-in, wage dividend...
...planned impact point was 200 miles east of Bermuda, where an array of ships and aircraft waited anxiously. Down curved MA-4, trailing flames, its simulated astronaut stoically suffering 7.8 Gs of deceleration. The tough 6-ft. drogue chute opened first; then the main chute opened and lowered MA4 gently into the Atlantic, 161 miles east of Bermuda and only 39 miles off target. For a vehicle that had been traveling at 17,519 m.p.h., this was good shooting indeed. Aircraft spotted the capsule at once, and the destroyer Decatur raced to pick...
...perfectly. One electrical part (an alternator) had misbehaved, but its functions were taken over by a backup duplicate. The oxygen system leaked a little, but not enough to matter. The "man" on board survived the trip, exactly as a human would have, but since he was only a simulated astronaut, he could not hold a press conference...
Vastly cheered by MA-4's triumph, NASA space engineers feel that a manned orbital flight is now all but accomplished. Within weeks, they will probably make final tests by putting a chimpanzee into orbit. If the chimp fares well, a human astronaut may follow before the end of the year...