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...Soviets have cloaked their feat with some mystery, are doling out the facts of the flight in dribbles to whet world curiosity. Last week Pravda published the latest installment of details and the first photo of "Venusnik.'' Biggest news: the satellite will probe deeply into the gravitational field of Venus-will pass within 62,000 miles of the cloud-shrouded planet on May 19 or May 20-then flash back data to earth and continue onward in an elliptical orbit around...
...Pravda's picture shows Venusnik as shaped like a snub-nosed howitzer shell, 80 in. long and 41 in. in diameter. Protruding from its body is an assembly of aerials that resembles a windmill, and a pair of wings that house scientific gear and solar batteries. Included in Venusnik's gear are an automatic thermostat to regulate temperature and orienting equipment that 1) prevents the vehicle from tumbling, 2) points its solar batteries constantly toward the sun. and 3) keeps its main aerial facing the earth...
...Communist-backed rebel leader in the Congo and ruled out any compromise. U.S. intelligence duly noted that new Soviet advisers were trickling into the pro-Communist capital of Stanleyville. Soviet Ilyushins renewed their milk-run nights to help the Communist-led rebels in Laos. Moscow's Pravda suddenly revved up the ominous old demands that Western troops get out of Berlin on Soviet terms...
...Rome last summer, the commissars of Soviet sport could only conclude that the "inevitable triumph" of Communism on the basketball court had been sabotaged. Auto-criticism was clearly called for. Recently, months after the Rome debacle, it came in the columns of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda...
...pessimism and basic disbelief in the opera. When his hospitalized hero grabs a nurse and gaily dances on artificial legs to prove to doctors his fitness for combat, the music is merely polite and detached, fails to milk the emotion of the scene in approved Soviet fashion. Still, as Pravda's music critic wrote last week: "A work about which many overhasty and unfair things were said at one time (by myself among others) has now come into...