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...well as the rest of the world-are uncomfort ably aware of the huge psychological difference between first and second place in the moon race. U.S. space officials first greeted last month's pioneering flight of Russia's Zond 5 with a mixture of admiration, envy and chagrin, certain that it was a prelude to an imminent manned Russian flight around the moon and, eventually, a manned landing...
...Lawrence overcame the objections of other scientists and won approval for the construction of a monstrous proton accelerator for converting nonfissionable uranium 238 into fission able plutonium, which could be used in nuclear weapons. This time, after three years and huge expenditures, Lawrence completed the accelerator. But to his chagrin, it produced an effective beam of protons for only two hours, then burned out and never could be used again...
...curfew in the streets, tore down inflammatory posters, and issued stern warnings against provocations. They also set up their own newspaper and a radio station called Radio Vltava, which could hardly compete with the free stations. Russian security men began arresting liberal intellectuals who had caused chagrin in the Kremlin. Among those held under house arrest was Ladislav Mnac-ko, author of the novel The Taste of Power, who was locked up, along with the editors of Svobodne Slovo in the newspaper's office in Prague...
...able to draw the line so clearly between the right of Czechoslovaks to run their own na tional affairs and Russia's in ternational claims as bloc lead er that just before the conference opened he won a unanimous vote of committee confidence. To the Russians' chagrin, the entire Czechoslovak delegation came to Cierna determined to render unto Moscow only what was Moscow's. Two weeks later, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht journeyed to Karlovy Vary and presumably reported to Moscow that the Czechoslo vaks had been completely unchastened by Cierna, that the contagion of reform...
...past three months, the government has confiscated the press runs of three newspapers, seized the editions of four magazines. It has also brought criminal charges against seven journalists and sentenced two others to jail-all for violating the purportedly liberalized law. To their chagrin, newsmen found that the government could hold them or their publications accountable for any breach of a vague and all-embracing clause that demands respect for truth, morality, public order and the family honor of all Spaniards...