Word: feats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American reaction to the Soviet spectacular ranged from grudging admiration to scoffing irrelevance. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians for their fine "technical feat. " NASA Director James Webb insisted that Americans would still be the first men on the moon. Dwight Eisenhower, who recently deplored "the mad effort to win a stunt race " to the moon, seemed removed from the troubling reality: "I don't admit there is a[space] gap. I'm a little tired of that word. I've heard enough of it. " A Different Feeling. But much more will be heard. The official U.S. position...
...West could only wonder what the Russians were up to this time. No Russian cosmonaut had been sent into space in the year and five days since Gherman Titov's 17-orbit flight; surely, Russia had not waited all that time merely to duplicate Titov's feat...
...using the new space flights to make some propaganda, asked the U.S. to refrain from nuclear tests that might endanger the cosmonauts. The U.S., which had scheduled no tests anyway, quickly reassured the Russians. From his weekend retreat in Boothbay Harbor, Me., President Kennedy saluted Russia's "exceptional" feat, as well as the "courage of the two astronauts." said: "The American people wish them a safe return." In the year since Titov rocketed into orbit, the Soviet man-in-space program has been curiously grounded. Russia sent up only seven scientific satellites, while the U.S. launched Astronauts John Glenn...
...needed only 53 min. to crush his unseeded countryman Martin Mulligan, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1, for his third national championship of the year. Only the U.S. championship at Forest Hills in September stands between Laver and a "grand slam" of amateur tennis' four top tournaments, a feat accomplished only once before, in 1938, by the U.S.'s Don Budge...
Attempting the feat here is Richard Basehart, whose work has been mainly in the cinema. His is an honest, valiant effort; and much of Richard comes through, though a complete Richard eludes him. At the opening performance, he often spoke too softly, but I trust he has better guaged the acoustics of the theater by now. (And Fletcher might give thought to decreasing the number of lines spoken by others with back to the audience...