Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In a dispatch to the Washington Star last week, Veteran Moscow Correspondent Edmund Stevens traced the Soyuz tragedy back to the moment in 1966 when Soviet Space Chief Sergei Korolev died of complications after surgery for cancer. It was Korolev, said Stevens, who was largely responsible for Russia's...
Korolev's successors apparently could not resist mounting pressures for 1967 space spectaculars, Stevens reported, and they agreed to a Soyuz mission timed to coincide with May Day celebrations. Thus, despite an earlier unmanned Soyuz flight that is believed to have come to grief, Soyuz 1 may have been...
Final SOS. Although the Russians attribute Komarov's death to the crash of Soyuz after its parachute straps became tangled, Stevens cites widespread rumors in Moscow that the cosmonaut was dead before he returned to earth.
Komarov may have had a premonition of his fate. Shortly before the veteran cosmonaut entered the spacecraft, Stevens says, he handed Soviet Reporter Sergei Borzenko the book he had been reading-a biography of Joan of Arc. In a section describing the Maid of Orleans' burning at the stake...
Not only has your reporter demoted Ida Kaminska from Best Actress to Best Supporting Actress, but he has shown his naivete in other ways. The choice of A man for All Seasons for Best Picture, Actor, and Director he called "a depressing surprise." Whether or not the selection was "depressing...