Word: cosmonaut
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...Communist side, it was a week of Khrushchev huffing and puffing: now Nikita exulted in the impressive achievements of Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and the Russian scientists who plotted his course; now he brandished the claim of a Soviet bomb equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT; now he scoffed at Western strength ("Gentlemen capitalists, your arms are too short...
...British lion does not terrify anyone anymore." To the Greek ambassador in Moscow, Nikita declared, "My military people would have no mercy on the olive orchards of Greece or even the Acropolis!'' To accomplish his task, he boasted at another party (the welcome down celebration for Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov) that Russian scientists now knew how to make an H-bomb equal to 100 million tons of TNT, seven times bigger than any U.S. nuclear device ever exploded...
...morning sun had already topped the mountains edging the Kazakhstan steppes, deep in southern Russia, when Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, 26, rode to his waiting rocket in an eggshell-blue bus. Bulky in his orange spacesuit, Titov clambered up the gantry ladder and settled himself in the giant five-ton capsule perched on the rocket's nose. An attendant handed him a notebook labeled ''Log Book of the Spaceship Vostok II.'' With exaggerated care, Titov examined the pencil dangling from the log, and remembered: "Yuri Gagarin did not attach his pencil firmly and lost...
...wish dear Muscovites good night. I am turning in now. You do as you please, but I am turning in." With that, Titov lay back for the programed 7½ hours of sleep, actually overslept by 35 minutes. On the ground, Russian scientists kept telemetered watch over the sleeping cosmonaut's pulse, respiration and heartbeat, watched his face by television when Vostok II circled within range. (A tape recorder automatically took down his every word in flight...
...formal vows to Communism. His old revolutionary party would be merged with the Cuban Communist Party, and his scribes were writing a new constitution officially proclaiming Cuba a "socialist state." All this was being tied in with an anniversary celebration at which the principal attraction was to be Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin...