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...Tass, the Soviet news agency, said Barghoorn was picked up "the other day." According to his itinerary, however, he was scheduled to leave Moscow for Warsaw on November 1, and so must have been arrested at least two weeks...
...hear the Russians tell it, all the world's women were in chains before Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. As the first woman cosmonaut looped the earth, Tass exulted: "A brilliant star has flared up in the cosmic firmament. It outshines all the film stars in the world. Never and in no country did women ever attain such height." In every Russian village, women celebrated, and congratulations were fired aloft from such Soviet heroines as Lyubi Li, described in the press as "the renowned corn planter and hero of Socialist labor...
...Good Glove Man." After taking his bachelor of arts degree with honors in history, Pearson briefly stuffed sausages in the Hamilton, Ont., branch of Armour & Co. (he was later to be accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...
...mission. The size of Lunik IV (1½ tons) led some Western scientists to believe it was designed to carry out a soft landing on the moon. But after 3 ½ days in flight, Lunik IV missed the moon by 5,281 miles. Was Lunik IV a flop? Tass reported only that experiments "had been carried out," then curtly added it would have nothing more to report about the flight...
...suggested stalemate rather than crisis. Barring the existence of some unknown intelligence reports or private revelation, all the Washington warnings-by the President, Bobby Kennedy, Rusk, Defense Secretary McNamara et al.-were not based on anything concrete. The closest thing to specific evidence was a month-old Tass statement, which suggested that Moscow was willing to be patient about signing a peace treaty with East Germany until after the U.S. elections. The danger in Berlin remains real enough at all times, but it also happens to fit in neatly with the Kennedy election strategy; one way of diverting attention from...