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World-wide response to the recently released news of Gagarin's odyssey has copied Novozhilcv's praise. A British scientist termed the feat "the greatest achievement in the history of science," and a huge crowd in Moscow danced in streets in the most impressive display spontaneous enthusiasm in the history the Soviet regime. For President Kennedy the flight was "an outstanding technical accomplishment...
...ODYSSEY OF THE SELF-CENTERED SELF (184 pp.)-Roberf Elliot Fitch-Harcourt, Brace & World...
...loveless and friendless, the S-Man completes his "lonely odyssey." Deadpanned and often deadeyed, Maschler and Raphael offer a devastating if somewhat fanciful critique of modern non-ethics. The only overt moral judgment is in the pseudonym itself, with its implication that the S-Man is his brother's killer...
Tues., March 14 Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.). An account of a remarkable odyssey: an 11,000-mile whale hunt, ranging all the way from the Black Sea to the Antarctic. Filmed by Soviet cameramen...
...Their odyssey began back in 1949, when crusty old General Li Mi, retreating as the Red Chinese armies advanced into Yunnan province, led some 10,000 of his men across the border to safety in Burma. General Li soon arranged to have supplies (often U.S.-made) flown in from Formosa, launched harassing raids on the Red Chinese across the border. Unfortunately, his troops were equally willing to take on the Burmese, who complained to the U.N. Under pressure, the Nationalist government suspended its aid, and in 1953-54 General Li and some 7,000 guerrillas were flown out to safety...