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...Items, the 'Poon writes: "Banners waving, confetti streaming, cannons booming, and thousands of broadly smiling Washingtonians on official holiday (their second in as many weeks) crowding the elm-lined length of Pennsylvania Avenue in the abnormal (for Washington) 60 degree weather, the stately pearl gray Lincoln Continental limousine, dappled sunlight glinting from its vinyl roof, preceded by a 50-girl corps of the fairest drum-majorettes in a city renowned for them (having produced eight national winners since 1955), sandwiched between sixteen marching bands (especially flown in for the occasion from Bancouver) playing the works of John Sousa and Edward...
...echoes of the Celtic invasion from Wales that settled the giant peninsula about 500 A.D. Life is hard and poor, and even the tourist trade is seasonal at best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale sunlight ignites the Montagnes Noires. But tucked away in the bleakness of Brittany is a village that doesn't quite fit. Gourin (pop. 3,000) is fat, smart and happy...
...came the standard publicity-the proud public announcements, the canned biographies of the cosmonauts. If it seemed stodgy and unsophisticated compared with the hoopla that surrounds U.S. space shots, the Russian performance was still perfectly timed. Voskhod trailed behind it an embarrassing shadow that seemed to darken the spring sunlight over Florida's Cape Kennedy. The planned U.S. Gemini shot dwindled in significance as Leonov's impressive feat added another first to the lengthening list that reminds the world how far the Russians are ahead in manned-space flight. Items: >First earth satellite, Sputnik...
Whether autonomous or not, the suit was well-insulated and covered with a white material to reflect all possible sunlight, for maintaining tolerable temperatures is one of the major problems in the design of space suits. Because sunlight in space is twice as strong as at the bottom of the atmosphere, and contains ultraviolet rays that quickly weaken many materials, the outer layer of a space suit must not only ward off light and heal, but must be proof against ultraviolet...
Almost as dangerous as radiant heat is the fearful cold of space, which strikes wherever an object is shadowed from the sun. If an astronaut stays long out of sunlight, as may be necessary on future space missions, his body heat will tend to leak away. Thus the outer layer must be made of material that does not radiate too much heat. The Russians have not told what they use for a space-suit coating, only that it is white...