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Ever since Nikita Khrushchev steamed, steaming, into New York harbor last September to dress down the U.N. General Assembly, the world has buzzed with reports that a Soviet attempt to mark the occasion by rocketing a man into orbit ended in the death of the would-be astronaut. Last week in Washington, the story was hotter and more circumstantial than ever...
Name & Number. The buzzing began last Sept. 23, when Brigadier General Don D. Flickinger of the Air Research and Development Command ventured that two Russians aboard a space vehicle had been "clobbered" before they had gone into full orbit. Three months later, Chicago Daily News Correspondent Paul Ghali reported from Bern that in early October the Russians had fired off a capsule containing a man but that the capsule had failed to separate from its rocket, roasting the astronaut alive. By Ghali's account (TIME, Dec. 19), it was this failure, not the "airplane accident" reported by Moscow, that...
L.B.J. in Orbit...
...farmer's lyrical letter to Khrushchev: "Affectionately our people call corn 'Nikita's daughter,' and in truth you, Nikita Sergeevich, gave corn its vital importance. I think we can compare corn, the queen of the fields, with a rocket that will thrust us into the orbit of Communist abundance and help us sooner to overtake America." But when Polyansky began talking about poor local corn harvests, Khrushchev interrupted: "Once you've taken an obligation and failed, then write: 'Comrades, I've flopped. I ask to be relieved and that my post be given...
Dean Watson becomes Master of Dunster House and is thus eliminated from consideration for football coach and Dean of the Faculty.... The Soviet Union puts a man in orbit around the earth. Khrushchev declines comment on reports that the space traveler is Mao Tse-tung. The United States, aiming for the moon, lands a man in the Congo.... Kennedy, in a televised press conference, announces that "this country is moving again." ....Eisenhower, in retirement publishes a book on Cuba called "Listen, C. Wright Mills!" Castro, whose vocabulary is becoming limited, denounces the work as a "provocation" ... Harvard still needs...