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Seconds later, U.S. radar watchers knew a Russian spaceship was aloft, flashed word to Western tracking stations around the world. (In Hyannisport, it was 2 a.m.; 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...
When the French defiantly sent a helicopter aloft. Tunisians fired a few "warning shots" in its direction. Then, to reinforce the base in the face of these alarums and excursions, the French flew in 800 paratroopers. As the parachutes blossomed down onto the airfield, Tunisians sprayed them with machine guns...
...functioning-if not always perfect-vehicle; in the salt water of the Atlantic, it became as vulnerable as a paper boat in a storm. The difference spelled a near disaster that taught the U.S. space program some valuable lessons, and may cause a third astronaut to be flung aloft before the program can proceed with its plan to put a man into orbit...
...transport plane with rotors on top for vertical take-off like a helicopter, two propeller engines for forward flight once aloft. The British are working on such a plane for the West (the Rotodyne), have not yet perfected...
...Secret Life of Danny Kaye (CBS, 10-11 p.m.)* A rebroadcast of a brilliant program the TV industry waves aloft when it needs to prove TV's occasional quality. It records the trip Kaye made for UNICEF five years ago to visit the children of the world, in a dozen countries of Europe, Africa and the Middle East...