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Having zipped over the U.S. at 17,750 m.p.h. during his 17-orbit spin last August, Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov, decided it was time for a more leisurely look. Titov, whose 25-hr. 18-min. flight remains the world's record, requested a visa to attend an international space conference that opens in Washington next week. There he may get to meet a fellow space traveler, who is scheduled to talk about his own three-orbit flight: U.S. Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn...
Cash blasted 41 HR's, knocked in 132 runs, and ran second to Mantle with a slugging average of 662. Sports Illustrated demonstrates that "Stormin' Norman" led the league in both the number and percentage of times he reached base. Undoubtedly Cash was the league's best all-round hitter last year...
Both outfields are extremely strong and Detroit is by no means at a disadvantage. Rocky Colavito (.290, 45 HR's, 140 RBI's) has as much sheer power as anyone in the league. Fleet Billy Burton (.257, 22 SB's) remains near the top in a league of brilliant defensive center-fielders. Kaline in right hit .325 last year and led the league in doubles...
...biggest boom yet of the supersonic age hit only last week, when a four-jet B58 Hustler streaked nonstop from Los Angeles to New York and back in a record-smashing 4 hr. 42 min., at an overall average of 1,044.3 m.p.h...
...Glenn sniveled the Marines into letting him try to beat the speed of sound from coast to coast. Flying an F8U, Glenn failed by nine minutes, but he did knock 23½ min. off the coast-to-coast speed record by covering the distance in 3 hr. 23 min. at an average speed of 726 m.p.h...