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...slalom, Harvard placed fifth with 84.5 points. Blodgett was fourth with a time of 117 seconds for two runs. Peter Gagarin placed eighth with a time of 122.6 seconds as Eaton won again in 105.8 seconds...
These difficulties, plus a desire to reduce tensions of the cold war, prompted Kennedy to make the surprise announcement, in his United Nations address, that the U.S. was ready to make Project Apollo a joint East-West effort. Yuri Gagarin, also speaking at the U.N., has since expressed his government's willingness to join in a co-operative venture. To thwart this move the House has passed an amendment to the space appropriations bill forbidding all space expenditures should the moon program pass out of strict U.S. control. Fortunately this measure, which took the Administration by surprise, is not likely...
...intellectuals. The official organ of the Moscow Writers Union, Literaturnaya Rossiya, backed a reader's suggestion that Evtushenko be thrown out of the union-a move that would reduce the high-living poet to poverty, since state publishing houses would no longer accept his work. Even Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin joined the wolf pack snarling at Evtushenko's heels. Following up earlier attacks on the poet for daring to evade Soviet censorship by publishing his autobiography in France, Gagarin said the act demonstrated "an unforgivable lack of responsibility...
...collection only in 1959. But he had a head start: his father, an insurance broker, has been reading TIME since 1935, and had saved many back copies. Randall now has 402 covers signed by subjects, among them Konrad Adenauer, Moise Tshombe, U.S. Astronaut Alan Shepard and Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Marilyn Monroe (who signed in red ink), J. Paul Getty (who signed in black), and Tibet's Dalai Lama. Some of the signers send more than their autograph: John F. Kennedy enclosed an autographed picture with one of the two covers he signed; Abdul Karim Kassem (whose signature...
...Opera Bass Jerome Mines, 40, drew a tumultuous standing ovation and six curtain calls from the opening night crowd at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. Said the Hollywood-born Hines, modestly trying to sound surprised at the cheers: "How do you think Americans would feel if they saw Yuri Gagarin on the launching pad at Cape Canaveral...