Word: tass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the top-priority luncheon thrown for him by his great and good friend (and fellow Lenin prizewinner) Cyrus Eaton, the Cleveland industrialist, was not all K. had hoped for. Present were about 125 U.S. and Canadian businessmen (mostly associates of Eaton's) and a flock of Tass reporters. Though Khrush got a chance to sing his Communist theme, most of the guests deliberately passed up his offer to answer questions from the floor; one disgruntled guest was heard to mutter during K.'s speech: "Oh, sit down, you s.o.b...
Obviously sensitive on the point, and anxious to squelch the talk of Soviet vulnerability. Tass last week produced new evidence it said came from Powers himself. "Apparently my father misunderstood my answers when I was on trial," Tass quoted Powers as writing in a letter to the New York Times. "I am sure my plane did not blow up by itself. All the indicators that register the performance of the engine were in good order until the very moment of the explosion which I felt and heard . . . I was at the maximum height when the explosion occurred...
Tentatively, the Russians edged into the situation. Trujillo's Radio Caribe contracted for the services of the Soviet news agency Tass. Two Soviet trade experts arrived in Ciudad Trujillo to see what political mischief they could make...
...days later the Russians fired another rocket into the Pacific target area, then abruptly canceled this series of tests, which was scheduled to last until the end of the month. So accurate were the rockets, gloated Russian scientists, that further testing was unnecessary. Crowed Tass: "All the necessary data has been obtained for the development of the carrier rocket intended for the further conquest of cosmic space...
...York operates regular banking facilities (the building is ancient, but the interest is modern); the clocks in the Chicago and San Francisco railway stations bear the monogram of the Hamilton Watch Co. Nonetheless, three staunchly anticapitalist preview visitors were impressed; they were reporters from the Soviet Union's Tass news agency. Last week the Kremlin announced plans for a Moscow amusement park-to be called either Wonderland or Pioneer Republic-built on a huge relief map of Russia. Of course it will feature rocket models and a space ship...