Word: gagarin
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...little later, the eventual winner, Taffy Fletcher of B.U., gave a reading from Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending that actually approached competence. Then someone named Marcia sang a song about Yuri Gagarin that was supposed to be both original (which it was, I guess) and satirical...
With Shepard rode the hopes of the U.S. and the whole free world in a period of darkness. In recent weeks the U.S. had suffered a succession of setbacks: first, the orbital exploit claimed by the Soviet Union for its Major "Gaga"' Gagarin, then the Cuba debacle, and then retreat in strategic Southeast Asia. For Jack Kennedy, his New Frontier image badly tarnished by cold war defeats, Freedom 7 represented a daring and dangerous gamble. He had given the go-ahead for the man-shoot not to be made in such secrecy as to cast doubt on the actual...
...than the design speed of the U.S.'s piloted rocket plane X-15. Though his capsule had curved along its course with infinite precision, its ballistic trajectory could not be compared with the far more complicated orbital flight that Russia claimed last month for its own astronaut, Yuri Gagarin (TIME cover, April 21). Still, it was a magnificent milestone on man's path into space; it was a signal achievement of U.S. science. And it brightened the cold-war world with a luster all its own. It was a gaudy American gamble, a nation going for broke...
...cameras and all the world's press, the U.S. could take special satisfaction in the fact that its spacemen did not keep secrets from science. They had worked in the open, unafraid of failure, unshielded by the compulsive secrecy that still surrounds much of the voyage of Yuri Gagarin's Vostok. Now, like Kilroy, Shepard had been there-and while he traveled, the world had watched...
...looking forward to seeing him in Washington. Said Shepard: "Thank you very much, Mr. President. It was certainly a very thrilling ride. I'd like to thank everybody who made it possible." Soon after the stilted conversation (which sounded for all the world like Major Yuri Gagarin's talk with Khrushchev after his orbital flight), an airplane took Shepard to Grand Bahama Island, where he was held incommunicado for an elaborate physical and mental examination and a more complete debriefing...