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...generally ticketed as the anointed heir has long been ponderous Party Secretary Frol Kozlov, 52. Khrushchev himself told Averell Harriman in June 1959 that he had picked Kozlov as his successor. As recently as last April, Kozlov stood beside Khrushchev at the triumphant reception for Spaceman Gagarin. Since then, Kozlov has dropped out of sight. Last week diplomats heard that he had suffered a heart attack (Kozlov is known to have high blood pressure). Other reports were that Kozlov had merely incurred Khrushchev's displeasure on matters of policy. Whatever the reason, Kozlov is now considered permanently shelved...
...speed of 4,000 m.p.h., the experimental X-15 rocket plane usually sets a record. Last week it set another: Test Pilot Joe Walker flew it at 3,370 m.p.h., which is 296 m.p.h. faster than Major Robert White's flight last April 21. Only Russia's Spaceman Yuri Gagarin and the U.S.'s Alan Shepard have ever flown faster. As his ship nosed over, after reaching a peak altitude of 110,000 ft., Walker was weightless for almost a full minute...
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Tell me what would the cost be for an insurance policy from Lloyd's of London for a spaceman...
...Yuri Gagarin really the first spaceman? French Correspondent Edouard Bobrowski, just back from Moscow, and speaking over France's state-owned radio, declared that Gagarin was the second. The first spaceman, said Bobrowski, was Sergei Ilyushin, son of Russia's famed aircraft designer. Said Bobrowski: "Sergei Ilyushin is a tough boy, a kind of Soviet Gil Delamare [French parachute jumper, stock-car racer and stuntman], and his father's position permitted him to do anything he wished. He absolutely wanted to be the first one to reach the cosmic barriers. Authorization was given him through...