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...world last week acclaimed a Russian Air Force major nicknamed Gaga. And as Yuri Gagarin became the first man to escape the planet and return safely, earthbound humans could view the event through telescopes that offered radically different images. In the long-range reflection of history, Gagarin's adventure was one for global celebration, an inspiring forward thrust in man's effort to explore the universe. Through the foreshortened telescope of the cold war, the Soviet achievement could be seen only as a victory for Communism and a defeat for the free world...
...familiar: Plus fa 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...
Dead Center. For a few days this riposte was taken by the cynical as a description of the whole U.S. In reality the country was far from asleep, even on the scientific and astronautical fronts. But Gaga's triumph did come at a time when things seemed to be on dead center in Washington, and hadn't progressed too much since the Eisenhower Administration...
...newsman described him as having "a kind Russian face, with eyes well separated." Another, who interviewed Gagarin soon after landing, seemed so dazzled by the new national hero that he wrote: "His eyes were shining as though still reflecting spatial starlight." A nationwide hookup broadcast a telephone conversation between "Gaga," as the Soviet public promptly nicknamed him, and Premier Khrushchev, who was vacationing on the Black...
...Gaga: I felt fine. The flight was very successful. All the apparatus of the cosmic ship functioned properly. During the flight I saw the earth from a great height. I could see the seas, the mountains, big cities, rivers and forests...