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...foreign leaders the one who did most to prove freedom strong?by confronting it with its sternest tests???was the Soviet Union's Nikita Khrushchev. In 1957 Khrushchev's Sputniks made him Man of the Year. In 1959 he scored even greater successes in space: on Jan. 2 the U.S.S.R. sent a 3,245-lb. package into sun orbit as the first man-made planet; eight months later, a Soviet rocket smacked the face of the moon, and on Oct. 4, two years to the day after Sputnik I, the Russians launched a rocket that passed around and photographed...