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After the easy, articulate warmth of its own astronaut. Colonel John Glenn, the U.S. was surprised last week by the somewhat uncommunicative attitude of Russian Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov. Sent to the U.S. to share his hard-won knowledge of travel in space with Glenn and COSPAR (Committee on Space Research), Titov seemed under orders from home to do nothing of the sort. In press conferences and TV interviews, he was always guarded and reluctant in his replies, though often breezy enough when it came to enjoying the crowds...
...drama of the Soviet Union's Major German Stepanovich Titov as he whirled in orbit around the planet was of a sort to excite the spirit of men everywhere. But the cold war was still to be won or lost on earth itself, with Berlin the major battleground. And last week, as the whole German question seemed to be reverting to a talking matter, the U.S. was moving with an increasing confidence that might well prove to be more important than space rivalry...
...youth Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa (1644-1709) was sent to Warsaw to pick up a courtly education as a page to King John Casimir V of Poland. Mazepa, the story goes, picked up the wife of a Polish nobleman. The lady's husband surprised the lovers and ended the courtly phase of Mazepa's education by tying him naked on the back of a wild horse and turning the horse out onto the steppes. Rescued by Ukrainian Cossacks, Mazepa soon rose to leadership among them. When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most...
Then, like a volcano blowing off its top, the whole Russian line exploded in a huge arc of gunfire. Wily, broad-jawed Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Konev had touched off the greatest mass artillery shoot ever staged for a Russian attack...
Center. Over boggy terrain in the Gomel area, Lieut. General Ivan Stepanovich Konev hurled pistonlike counterattacks. Russians claimed they had stopped the Nazi drive on Moscow in its tracks. The Nazis acknowledged that Russian "new armies" had made heavy counter assaults, but insisted they had been smothered. The Red Air Force announced a bag of 500 planes for the week ending...
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