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...station-in orbit since May 14-the astronauts will perform a complex series of tasks, including observation of the comet Kohoutek. The three men, who if all goes well are not due to return until February 1974, will be making the last U.S. manned space journey until the joint Russian-American flight, scheduled for July...
...TEMPTING to accept President Nixon's comparison of last week's world-wide alert of American military forces with "the Cuban confrontation of 1962." Like the Cuban missile crisis, last week's little Russian-American contretemps may have been blown up out of all relation to reality by a combination of Cold Warriors, military people and veteran politicians like Senator Jackson and Nixon himself...
...benign sort of place to be involved in bitter racial controversy. On a cold Sunday night in December 1968, six ranking members of the state house of representatives, just half a block down State Street, had dropped by for something to eat. The group included Jewish, Irish, Italian and Russian-American legislators and one black. House Majority Leader K. Leroy Irvis. "We were a real United Nations group," recalls Representative Harry A. Englehart Jr., a Moose from western Pennsylvania, who had suggested that they dine at the lodge since most restaurants in town were closed...
...frame writhing, Yevtushenko shouts, wails and purrs in dramatic Russian. English translations are usually read by a British actor named Barry Boys, or by fellow poets. Between poems, Yevtushenko often banters with the audience in adequate English and with natural charm. The overall reaction is either passionate enthusiasm or cold rage. Says Poet Stanley Kunitz: "To reach out to so large an audience has an element of adventure. Extravaganzas relieve the tedium of an age." Poet Allen Ginsberg was inspired to dithyrambics: "He is trying his best to unify Russian-American Soul under the banner of poesy; in heaven, great...
...associate of the Harvard Observatory, Wood got a whopping 50 milligrams of moon rock for study and testing in a Russian-American exchange on July 13. Soviet scientists were given material collected by Apollo 11 and 12 astronauts in return for their lunar samples...