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...Communist side, it was a week of Khrushchev huffing and puffing: now Nikita exulted in the impressive achievements of Cosmonaut Gherman Titov and the Russian scientists who plotted his course; now he brandished the claim of a Soviet bomb equivalent to 100 million tons of TNT; now he scoffed at Western strength ("Gentlemen capitalists, your arms are too short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War: In Search of Grandeur | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...does not terrify anyone anymore." To the Greek ambassador in Moscow, Nikita declared, "My military people would have no mercy on the olive orchards of Greece or even the Acropolis!'' To accomplish his task, he boasted at another party (the welcome down celebration for Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov) that Russian scientists now knew how to make an H-bomb equal to 100 million tons of TNT, seven times bigger than any U.S. nuclear device ever exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Rocket Rattling | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...morning sun had already topped the mountains edging the Kazakhstan steppes, deep in southern Russia, when Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, 26, rode to his waiting rocket in an eggshell-blue bus. Bulky in his orange spacesuit, Titov clambered up the gantry ladder and settled himself in the giant five-ton capsule perched on the rocket's nose. An attendant handed him a notebook labeled ''Log Book of the Spaceship Vostok II.'' With exaggerated care, Titov examined the pencil dangling from the log, and remembered: "Yuri Gagarin did not attach his pencil firmly and lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: I Am Eagle | 8/18/1961 | See Source »

...last census (1920) there were 134,318 in the U. S., settled mostly in the east and east central manufacturing districts. Most of them and their children belong to the Roumanian Orthodox Church, which until last week had no distinctive head here. Reverend Professor Lazar Gherman of Manhattan is the Archimandrite. But he has been functioning under the general supervision of the Russian Orthodox Church through its Manhattan headquarters. (His home Church is in communion with Greek, Russian, Serbian and other Eastern Orthodox Churches.) Last week the Holy Synod in session in Roumania decided to create a bishopric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trends Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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