Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first is the double-take of the Kennedy Administration after the Soviet man-in-orbit feat. The first reaction actually began long before the actual event, when it was candidly admitted that the United States was second in boosters, would be second for a long time to come, and that the best that could be done was to keep plugging in hopes of catching up. But, like Sputnik, the achievement itself was more stunning than could have been imagined. Kennedy's statement, then, may very well presage a shift from resigned acceptance of a secondary position to withdrawal from those...
...confirmation of a pre-Yuri space flight-nor was one likely, for two reasons. The West confirms only those shots the Russians have documented in order to keep secret just how effectively the worldwide Western tracking net functions. And the Russians might well have calculated Ilyushin's first orbit as carefully as they did Gagarin's, which artfully swung around the earth in a pattern that avoided the major Western tracking outposts. In fact; the West saw neither initial orbit-but later picked up Gagarin's empty rocket casing still orbiting after his descent...
...Cuba, Laos and Iran, Lippmann was given a lesson in Leninist doctrine: "For Khrushchev these three are merely examples of what he regards as a worldwide and historic revolutionary movement which is surely destined to bring the old colonial countries into the Communist orbit" Lippmann got the impression that to Khrushchev "it is normal for a great power to undermine an unfriendly government within its own sphere of interest " deduced from this that "Khrushchev thinks much more like Richelieu and Metternich than like Woodrow Wilson...
...believe that any such prospects were at beat slight 2) And what if the attempt failed? Did any one in Washington carefully consider this possibility? Now the United States has given Castro perfect justification for a reign of terror and removed any likelihood of detaching him from the Soviet orbit or encouraging developments away from a dictatorial regime...
...Soviets really risked their space prestige so rashly? Most foreign observers felt sure that they had not. It seemed probable that Major Gagarin had arced into orbit and returned safely before anything was reported. There were also other minor mysteries about the Vostok's flight. According to the Russian official account, he checked in over South America only 15 minutes after the Vostok was launched. Yet South America is more than half an orbit away from the probable launching. At a space conference in Florence, Italy, Academician Anatoly Blagonravov, 66, a former Czarist artillery expert who often acts...