Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Atomic Dispute. Whether the paper is valid or not, there is solid and accumulating evidence of the growing divisions between Communism's Big Two. In full public view, the Red Chinese have effectively pulled Albania into the Peking orbit, so much so that Albania rounded up Russian spies for trial, executed a gaggle of pro-Khrushchev Albanian party officials, closed down Russia's submarine base at Valona. Western diplomats in Geneva have been astonished to find Soviet delegates confiding that scores of Russian atomic technicians have been withdrawn from China in recent months, after China complained that...
Bayonets in Recife. Things are a lot livelier for Celia these days. As her son Che's Red star rises higher over Cuba, Mother Guevara has gone into quite an orbit of her own. She buzzed off to decorate a conference of leftist females in Santiago, Chile, in November 1959, returned to whip up enthusiasm for an Argentine branch of Castro's 26th of July movement. She travels to Cuba at least once a year to see her boy. Lately, Celia has capped her career by becoming a kind of Marxist Typhoid Mary, spreading violence wherever she goes...
When farm-bred Soviet Spaceman Yuri Gagarin departed Moscow shortly after his successful orbit for a triumphal trek through Czechoslovakia, a West German wire service marveled: "It's Gagarin's first trip abroad." By last week, three months and several countries later, the newly cosmopolitan cosmonaut had polished his terrestrial technique, suavely met his Finnish public in a preview of this week's speechifying appearance at the Soviet Trade Fair in London...
Transit's intricate workings [TIME, July 7] depend on an electronic system that ground stations can "inject" with information enabling the satellite to tell where it is on its orbit. Ships with proper equipment (a precision receiver and a computer) can pinpoint the moment when the satellite comes closest to them, how far away it is, and in what direction. From this information, the computer can quickly deduce the ship's position...
...critical moment approached, "but I had determined the ship's position and was ready to take control with my own hands. But at 10:25 the braking device was turned on by remote control, and it worked perfectly. The Vostok began to lose speed, and shifted from its orbit into a transitional ellipse. Then it began to enter dense layers of the atmosphere. Its outer surface heated rapidly, and through the curtains that covered the portholes I saw the lurid crimson glow of the flames that raged around the ship. I was in a ball of fire plunging downwards...