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Black, Black Sky. Exactly 23 hours and 32 minutes after Nikolaev's blastoff, just as he was breaking Titov's record by completing his 18th orbit, Moscow announced triumphantly that a second cosmonaut, Ukrainian-born Lt. Col. Pavel Romanovich Popovich, 31, had been hurled into space in a capsule called Vostok IV. Within an hour, the two space craft had established radio contact with each other, and Nikolaev reported to control headquarters that he was watching Vostok IV through his porthole. Plotting the radio signals, scientists outside Russia estimated that the two space craft were 74.5 miles apart...
...watch the earth in the clouds," said Popovich. "To the right, in the illuminator [porthole], I see the black, black sky. My spirits are wonderful. Everything goes excellently...
...blared from parked cars and windowsills. Soviet television screens picked up what Russia claimed were live telecasts from the space capsules. Nikolaev at first seemed in a trance during his showing, eyes closed, hands motionless. Later he came to life before the eyes of viewers, twisting dials, pushing buttons. Popovich was seen more clearly as he made entries in his log book...
...Pete Popovich, burly 215-pounder, and Ross, 187, will start at the ends for Lahar. Ross paired with Chandler at the offensive ends last year...
...guests and gate crashers departed early and quietly, leaving the field to Ambassador Popovich-who had not only dramatized his country's difficulties, but had also, if he felt that way, gotten the last laugh on the capital's name-dropping and tale-telling...