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...flight. According to the Russian official account, he checked in over South America only 15 minutes after the Vostok was launched. Yet South America is more than half an orbit away from the probable launching. At a space conference in Florence, Italy, Academician Anatoly Blagonravov, 66, a former Czarist artillery expert who often acts as a Russian space spokesman, was asked how Gagarin did his sightseeing from the Vostok. He replied that Gagarin looked out "by radio." This suggestion that the Vostok had no portholes only brought smiles from U.S. space experts, who pointed out that even the U.S. Mercury...
Although Marx and Engels foresaw imminent revolution in czarist Russia, they believed it would be not communist, but bourgeois, Maximilien Rubel declared yesterday in his final lecture on Marxism...
...only in 1868, at the age of 50, that Marx became sympathetic to the revolutionary movement which he perceived developing from the Emancipation of the Serfs in 1861. Czarist influence in 1843 had led to the suppression of Marx's political journal by the Prussian government, Rubel noted, and thus had provoked Marx's long-standing "anti-Russian obsession...
...since the imperial balls of Czarist days has the Kremlin seen such a night of festive gaiety. A sumptuously ornamented "New Year's tree" towered 50 ft. high in the vaulted St. George's Hall. Ambassadors, bishops, marshals in all their medals and all the top Soviet bosses thronged the long banquet tables and devoured mounds of caviar and salmon as Bolshoi sopranos sang and a symphony orchestra played. At the stroke of midnight,* Nikita Khrushchev raised his glass of Caucasian wine and shouted: "Happy New Year, comrades!" In great good spirits, he tossed out more toasts...
Died. Nicholas Alexander de Transehe, 74, czarist naval officer, inventor and Arctic explorer who came to the U.S. in 1923, helped plot Admiral Richard E. Byrd's first transpolar flight and after the war became a Soviet expert for the C.I.A.; of cancer of the liver; in Summit...