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...terrify anyone anymore." To the Greek ambassador in Moscow, Nikita declared, "My military people would have no mercy on the olive orchards of Greece or even the Acropolis!'' To accomplish his task, he boasted at another party (the welcome down celebration for Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov) that Russian scientists now knew how to make an H-bomb equal to 100 million tons of TNT, seven times bigger than any U.S. nuclear device ever exploded...
...morning sun had already topped the mountains edging the Kazakhstan steppes, deep in southern Russia, when Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, 26, rode to his waiting rocket in an eggshell-blue bus. Bulky in his orange spacesuit, Titov clambered up the gantry ladder and settled himself in the giant five-ton capsule perched on the rocket's nose. An attendant handed him a notebook labeled ''Log Book of the Spaceship Vostok II.'' With exaggerated care, Titov examined the pencil dangling from the log, and remembered: "Yuri Gagarin did not attach his pencil firmly and lost...
...President Kennedy had been alerted the night before that the Soviets had started a countdown for a manned shot, and was not awakened.) It was more than an hour before Tass interrupted radio and television programs to tell the Russian people of the new Soviet space triumph. By then, Titov, orbiting at 17,750 m.p.h., had finished one full 88-minute trip around the earth and dutifully reported by radio that all was well...
Overslept. Titov, in fact, seemed to be having the time of his life. Using his code name triumphantly, over and over again he radioed, "I am eagle, I am eagle." Once he added for any and all listeners: "I wish you had it so good." As the earth twisted beneath him-22° with each orbit-putting him successively over new continents and nations (see diagram), he proudly transmitted appropriate messages: Master Sergeant James...
...Duffy of Arlington, Va., hooked a tape recorder to his receiver, caught Titov flashing overhead saying "Sending my friendly greeting to the people of North America...