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...near bull's-eye touchdown on a dusty Kazakhstan plain, ending what Soyuz Commander Aleksei Leonov in his colloquial English said was a flight that seemed to go "as smooth as a peeled egg." The Kremlin promptly hailed the joint mission with yet another barrage of pronouncements. Exulted Izvestia: SUCCESS IN OUTER SPACE FOR PEACE. The Russians had more reason to crow. At week's end the two cosmonauts who had been aloft in a Salyut space station all through the Apollo-Soyuz mission returned safely to earth after 63 days in space, a Soviet record...
...time to the mission on the day of the launch, carrying the Soviet space story from the late cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to live coverage of the Soyuz liftoff. Day after day, large headlines splashed across newspapers, pushing the official line that the joint flight was, as one edition of Izvestia trumpeted, an ORBIT OF COOPERATION. In Moscow, sidewalk traffic tapered off noticeably before the Soyuz launch, the first Soviet launch its citizens have ever been shown live, as shoppers gathered before TV sets or display in stores and shopwindows all over the city. The crowds were quietly attentive during...
...Izvestia correspondent V. Kobysh toured "Garvardsy Universitet" last October, speaking to students "invariably dressed in jeans and sweaters," and lunching with members of the Faculty in a place he calls "the professors' cafeteria...
...Dzhon Garvard" starred in a feature article early this month in Izvestia, a Soviet daily, and of all the prominent Harvardians mentioned he came off smelling sweetest--probably because he managed to avoid the issue of detente...
...time he died last week at age 79 after a long illness, Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin had become an unperson in his homeland, an ignored and forgotten figure who in his last years idled away his time strolling along Moscow's boulevards and watching chess games in the park. Izvestia devoted only a paragraph to his obituary and no officials attended the perfunctory 30-minute funeral service...