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...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...
...Khrushchev press conference in the Kremlin's domed Sverdlov Hall.* With Communist newsmen serving as a claque, Khrushchev's sallies drew such loud laughter that a listener outside the door of Sverdlov Hall might have thought some great Russian comedian was holding forth inside. The official Tass transcript was sprinkled with such notations as [Gay animation in the hall] and [Laughter in the hall]. But to Western ears the performance was far from funny...
...Correspondent Cyrus L. Sulzberger. The infuriated Spanish press charged that Sulzberger's source was NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak, "a Socialist and an old enemy of the Spanish regime," and that the whole thing was a Jewish-Masonic plot. With undisguised delight, Russia's Tass bayed that "the two most reactionary states in Europe" had concluded "a backstage deal ... to obstruct the relaxation of international tensions...
Strategic Reach. The Soviet announcement left unsaid what kind of rockets the Kremlin intended to test. Said Tass: "Soviet scientists and engineers are now working to develop a more powerful rocket to launch heavy satellites and undertake space nights to planets." U.S.S.R. space scientist. Professor V. Dobronravov, said on Radio Moscow that the Pacific shots were preparatory to "man's flight into interplanetary space...