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...rival spacemen. The Soviet cosmonauts, marking an important milestone in international cooperation in space, were beginning their initial briefings by U.S. space officials on the Apollo spacecraft, including its life-support and communications systems. In fall, Stafford and his fellow crewmen, Deke Slayton and Vance Brand, will visit Zvezdnoy Gorodok (Star City), outside Moscow, for a reciprocal study of the Soviet spacecraft. Unless each side understands the other's ship, serious problems could occur when the spacecraft are maneuvering in earth orbit. But the cosmonauts-including Leonov and his sidekick, Engineer Valery Kubasov, who are the prime crewmen...
...part of the growing scientific cooperation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., the Kremlin is be ginning to raise the curtain slightly. Several American correspondents, including TlME's Moscow Bureau Chief John Shaw and Washington-based Aerospace Reporter Jerry Hannifin, have recently been allowed to visit Zvezdnoy Gorodok - Star City - the Soviet Union's cosmonaut-training complex 40 miles northeast of Moscow. Their report...
Tough Town. Small, sleepy Gorodok was one of the keys to Vitebsk. All through the summer the Germans fortified its approaches with steel, timber, concrete. They buried old tanks, to serve as pill boxes. They strung out miles of barbed wire, sowed the swamps with mines. They had hoped to stay in Gorodok a long, long time: the dugouts were large; the officers' quarters had hardwood floors...
...reduce Gorodok, the Red command used the new First Baltic Army, with its winter-trained Siberian regiments, which fought at Moscow, Stalingrad, the Don. It massed heavy artillery, tanks, planes. Then, in a heavy snowfall, the Siberians struck out from three directions...
...cannon pulverized enemy defenses. Despite wind and snow, the Red Air Force bombed and strafed the foe, special officers attached to each column directing the air attacks by radio. Soon panic spread through the German ranks. Their lines gave. Savage fighting boiled over into the streets of Gorodok. By 2 o'clock one afternoon last week, the German garrison-two infantry divisions, one tank division-gave up the battle. In Moscow, 124 cannon boomed a salute to victory...