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...spacemen returning from their high ride splash their frail capsules in the hostile sea. Costly fleets of ships and aircraft are required for their rescue, and many a U.S. spaceman is convinced that the craft would be far better off landing on land. The best space landing spot in the U.S., says the Bulletin of the Holloman, N. Mex., section of the American Rocket Society, is right near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico...
...space age's launching pads: beatniks swinging as if hooked on liquid oxygen, splashy motels by the mile, a real estate agent selling outback lots for $1,595 an acre, a wiggly blonde singing in a nightspot about her A-O.K. flight in a rocket with her spaceman. Then he switched to Britain's cheap-jack sex-and-crime newspapers and an abrasively candid interview with Cecil Harmsworth ("I'm a highbrow") King, publisher of London's Daily Mirror...
...flying school and the Red air force rather than college. And like Gagarin, Titov was treated to a hero's welcome when he finally returned from his high-arcing trip. Khrushchev led Titov's pretty young wife Tamara to the Moscow airport to greet the newest Soviet spaceman and smother him with kisses. It was a gooey occasion. Thousands of Muscovites jammed Red Square to toast Titov as he stood saluting atop Lenin's tomb, while helicopters overhead rained tiny, multicolored pictures of Titov...
...purely Castro touch was the bearded dictator's speech-it lasted four hours, counting a 23-minute break. At one point, Castro turned to Visitor Gagarin. "While I talk, you can go twice around the world." Said the weary spaceman, checking his watch: "Only one and a half times." Answered Castro, returning happily to the microphone: "That means I've still got half a world...
Rocketing into the In box of Britain's unflappable Prime Minister Harold Macmillan came a dispatch reporting foreign concern over the adulation showered on Red Spaceman Yuri Gagarin during his recent visit to Britain. In no time at all the dispatch rocketed out again bearing a sardonic notation by the leader of the world's most zoophilous nation. "It was nothing," scratched Mac the Knife, "to what that little dog would have...