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...Soviet Russia there is surely as complete, or almost as complete, a record of Major Yuri Gagarin's orbital flight around the earth. But so far, the Russians have released only trifles. Major Gagarin's heart speeded up during the flight, just as Shepard's did; he was reportedly in normal condition soon after landing. But little more has been told. Non-Russian space specialists who are interested in the technical details of man's first orbital flight will have to wait until the Soviet government attaches less value to secrecy...
...Soviet Union last week finally and formally broke silence on where Major Yuri Gagarin was sent into orbit (Baikonur), and where he returned to earth (Smelovka). TIME'S Mapmaker R. M. Chapin Jr. hit it on the button in the April 21 cover story on Gagarin...
...m.p.h., the experimental X-15 rocket plane usually sets a record. Last week it set another: Test Pilot Joe Walker flew it at 3,370 m.p.h., which is 296 m.p.h. faster than Major Robert White's flight last April 21. Only Russia's Spaceman Yuri Gagarin and the U.S.'s Alan Shepard have ever flown faster. As his ship nosed over, after reaching a peak altitude of 110,000 ft., Walker was weightless for almost a full minute...
...little later, the eventual winner, Taffy Fletcher of B.U., gave a reading from Tennessee Williams' Orpheus Descending that actually approached competence. Then someone named Marcia sang a song about Yuri Gagarin that was supposed to be both original (which it was, I guess) and satirical...
...Yuri, I love you, yo-oa I do-oo-oo/ Some take me out in space with you. oo-oo/... Now you'll be mentioned in all history/Oh-oh how much you mean...