Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chaliapin, swiftest of TIME'S cover artists. Chaliapin, son of the great Russian basso, has painted some 330 covers for TIME since the summer of 1942, and usually allows himself three days to do a portrait, whether working from his own sketches or from photographs. His most recent feat was painting John XXIII, immediately after his elevation as Pope, in 24 hours for the Nov. 10, 1958 issue of TIME. Last week, when wakened at 8 a.m. on Wednesday and asked to paint Spaceman Gagarin in a hurry, Artist Chaliapin had an unusual handicap. The night before...
...change, plus c'est la méme chose. In 1957, when Russia orbited Sputnik I, the U.S. displayed its rocket lag for all the world to see. Last week's Soviet exploit demonstrated that the lag has scarcely lessened. Official U.S. reaction to Gaga's feat was at least as nonchalant as the reaction to the first Sputnik. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians, but at his press conference he indicated that the desalinization of ocean water was even more important than space exploration. In 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan insisted that...
...bother official Russia a bit. These days, whenever a rocket blasts off its pad, the flight is almost always as much a propaganda maneuver as it is a scientific adventure. But this time even the poorly organized and obviously inaccurate propaganda could do little damage to the towering scientific feat. Just two days after his trip, Yuri Gagarin got a hero's reception in Moscow. Red Square, the city's ceremonial center, was decked out in festive dress. Banners fluttered from tall silver flagpoles; streetcars, buses, autos, lampposts and buildings were draped with bunting. Portraits of the cosmonaut...
...essence of heredity-the delicately complex deoxyribonucleic acid known as DNA-has been extracted virtually intact from human sperm for the first time by Doctors Ellen Borenfreund and Aaron Bendich. The "almost impossible" feat promises to shed new light on the transmission of hereditary traits in mammals and on the origin of genetic abnormalities. After experiments with the sperm of fish and fowl, rabbits and bulls, the Manhattan researchers carefully washed the human sperm to rid it of enzymes, then treated the DNA tough protein topcoat with a chemical that freed the 400,000 chainlike DNA molecules for examination...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge will attempt to track the last stage of the launching missile, presumably still in orbit. Don utman, Acting Head of the Research Analysis Division of the Observatory, said that the feat was "tremendous." And, he claimed, because the U.S. plans to attempt the same venture this summer, a Russian success was a predictable entry in the race for space. It was not an increase in the lead the Russians had already established, he maintained...