Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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World-wide response to the recently released news of Gagarin's odyssey has copied Novozhilcv's praise. A British scientist termed the feat "the greatest achievement in the history of science," and a huge crowd in Moscow danced in streets in the most impressive display spontaneous enthusiasm in the history the Soviet regime. For President Kennedy the flight was "an outstanding technical accomplishment...
...Russian radio announcer: "The chief aim was to further perfect spaceships and to establish on them a system that will provide necessary conditions for man's flight.'' All well and good-but on the basis of announced results, hardly more impressive than the Soviets' own feat of last Aug. 20, when they landed two dogs from orbit in a spaceship weighing almost as much as the current...
...consecutive victories would represent as impressive feat for any team. nding back more than two years to the much-publicised "hot-courts-partisantary" loss at Annapolis, the streak was for a few days as long as any in winter ge sports. But Ohio State's basketball team won its 23rd game, and the Crimson to Yale, so Baraoby will have to start from scratch next fall...
Chase gave the Bulldogs all three of their victories; his winning 4:25.7 in the 440 tonight was an American citizens' record. Chase's feat of taking the 1500, 220, and 440 two years in a row and winning seven titles in three years must stamp him as one of the all-time greats...
...Soviets have cloaked their feat with some mystery, are doling out the facts of the flight in dribbles to whet world curiosity. Last week Pravda published the latest installment of details and the first photo of "Venusnik.'' Biggest news: the satellite will probe deeply into the gravitational field of Venus-will pass within 62,000 miles of the cloud-shrouded planet on May 19 or May 20-then flash back data to earth and continue onward in an elliptical orbit around...