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The New York Times / August 1962

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Wednesday, August 1, 1962

Apollo: Learning to Live in Space
Astronauts to Gain Skills Needed for Trip to Moon

The United States will spend more than $200,000,000 this fiscal year for something than will go up like a rocket, come down like a meteor and land like an ordinary light plane.

Russians Threaten U.S.’ Copter Flights Over East Berlin

A Soviet representative warned that a United States Army helicopter that had flown over East Berlin might be shot down if it continued to do so.

U.S. MAY PROLONG A-TESTS IN PACIFIC

The Administration announced tentative plans to extend the nuclear test series in the Pacific in order to conduct two high-altitude explosions delayed by repeated rocket failures.

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Thursday, August 2, 1962

Apollo: Spacecraft Is Taking Shape >

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1—Three men are 400 feet in the air—atop the largest rocket the United States has been able to devise. They are strapped in reclining metal chairs, three in a row, like three men in a twenty-first-century barber shop.

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Friday, August 3, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

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Saturday, August 4, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

Apollo: Economic and Social Impact >

For a thousand miles along the southern crescent of the United States, from Florida’s palmetto thickets to the Texas ranchlands below Houston, the nation’s space industry has become a catalyst.

Khrushchev Likens Capitalism to Goat >

MOSCOW, Aug. 3 Premier Khrushchev, a quick man with a simile, has now compared Communist coexistence with capitalism to living in the same house with a smelly goat. But he added that this was preferable to going to war.

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Sunday, August 5, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

RUSK IS PLANNING NEW BERLIN TALKS WITH SOVIET SOON >

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 Secretary of State Dean Rusk expects to start another round of talks with the Russians soon on Berlin.

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Monday, August 6, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

Marilyn Monroe Dead, Pills Near >

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 5 —Marilyn Monroe, one of the most famous stars in Hollywood’s history, was found dead early today in the bedroom of her home in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles. She was 36 years old.

RUSSIANS RESUME A-TESTING IN AIR >

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5— The Soviet Union resumed its nuclear tests in the atmosphere early today with a powerful high-altitude blast believed to have been in the forty-megaton range.

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Tuesday, August 7, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

SOVIET IS DUBIOUS OF U.S. PROPOSALS FOR BAN ON TESTS >

GENEVA, Aug. 6—The Soviet Union said today it saw “no great hope” that new United States proposals would break the protracted stalemate in negotiations to end nuclear testing.

RED CHINA AGREES TO INDIAN PARLEY

NEW DELHI, India, Aug. 6— Communist China has “approved” India’s suggestion that they settle their boundary dispute “peacefully through negotiations on the basis of a report of officials of the two countries.”

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Wednesday, August 8, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

SOVIET RESTRICTS ONE-FAMILY HOME >

MOSCOW, Aug. 7—The Government decreed today a gradual abolition of one-family homes in urban communities of the Soviet Union.

Red China’s People Found In Despair Over Economy >

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—The mood in Communist China is one of “apathy, dejection and demoralization” in the midst of economic disaster, United States Government experts on Chinese affairs reported today.

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Thursday, August 9, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

NEW A-TEST PLAN PRESSED BY RUSK ON RUSSIAN ENVOY >

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—Secretairy of State Dean Rusk met today with Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin of the Soviet Union in an effort to persuade Moscow to accept the new United States proposals for a nuclear test ban and disarmament.

TRADING BY SOVIET IN RED BLOC DROPS >

Soviet trade with other Communist-ruled countries dropped last year to the lowest level since 1958.

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Friday, August 10, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

RUSSIANS SPURN U.S. COMPROMISE FOR BAN ON TESTS >

GENEVA, Aug. 9—The Soviet Union categorically rejected today new United States compromise proposals for a treaty to end nuclear testing.

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Saturday, August 11, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

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Sunday, August 12, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

THIRD RUSSIAN ORBITING THE EARTH IN FLIGHT EXPECTED TO SET RECORD; >
SOVIET WATCHES HIM ON TV SCREEN >

HE SLEEPS 7 HOURS. ‘Feel Fine,’ Astronaut Informs Khrushchev in Talk by Radio

MOSCOW, Sunday, Aug. 12—The Soviet Union launched its third astronaut into space yesterday on what was expected to be a prolonged orbital flight.

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Monday, August 13, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

TWO SOVIET SPACE CRAFT CIRCLING EARTH IN ADJACENT ORBITS AFTER NEW LAUNCHING; >
PILOTS KEEP IN TOUCH BY SIGHT AND RADIO >

Nikolayev Breaks Titov’s Record. Both Report All Is Well to Khrushchev

MOSCOW, Monday, Aug. 13—Two Soviet space craft hurtled around the earth this morning in adjacent orbits while their pilots conversed with each other by radio telephone.

SPACE FLIERS SEEN ON U.S. TELEVISION >

Pictures Taped in London and Flown Here

American television audiences got their first look at the two Soviet space fliers in their space capsules yesterday.

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Tuesday, August 14, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

SOVIET PILOTS SPIN ON IN ORBIT;
ONE HAS FLOWN MILLION MILES;
HE IS TIRED BUT STILL EFFICIENT

Time of Landing Is Still Undisclosed

MOSCOW, Tuesday, Aug. 14 Two Soviet astronauts continued to circle the earth this morning on their “group flight” in space.

Space Officials Still Expect To Beat Russians to Moon >

Leaders of this country’s space program are still optimistic about chances of being the first to land astronauts on the moon.

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Wednesday, August 15, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

ASTRONAUTS DOWN SIX MINUTES APART; >
BOTH ‘FEELING FINE’ >

MOSCOW, Wednesday, Aug. 15 Maj. Andrian G. Nikolayev and Lieut. Col. Pavel R. Popovich, pilots of the Soviet space ships Vostok III and Vostok IV, have landed after their historic orbital flights around the earth.

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Thursday, August 16, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

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Friday, August 17, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

MALINOVSKY SAYS SPACE TRIPS SHOW MILITARY POWER

Warning of Defense Chief Given as Moscow Prepares Welcome for Astronauts

MOSCOW, Aug. 16 The Soviet Defense Minister, Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky, declared today that the space flights of Maj. Andrian G. Nikolayev and Lieut. Col. Pavel R. Popovich should serve as a warning to the enemies of the Soviet Union.

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Saturday, August 18, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

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Sunday, August 19, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

Moscow Hails Astronauts; Premier Warns on Berlin

MOSCOW, Aug. 18—Premier Khrushchev called today for the replacement of Allied forces in West Berlin by a “temporary” garrison of United Nations troops.

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Monday, August 20, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

VAN ALLEN WARNS OF THREAT IN RAYS

Calls New Belt, Created by Nuclear Test, a Potential Danger to Spacemen VAN ALLEN WARNS OF THREAT IN RAYS

Dr. James A. Van Allen said yesterday that a new radiation belt, created by the high-altitude nuclear test staged by the United States in the central Pacific on July 9, had “increased the potential danger for manned space flights.”

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Tuesday, August 21, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

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Wednesday, August 22, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

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Thursday, August 23, 1962 – The New York Times Front Page

President Ready to Confer If Khrushchev Visits U.N.

Comment May Encourage Soviet Leader to Seize Opportunity for Meeting U.S. Set to Resist Berlin Squeeze Kennedy ‘Would Hope’ for Parley With Khrushchev PRESIDENT READY TO MEET RUSSIAN Comment May Encourage Premier to Seize Chance for Second Encounter

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 President Kennedy said today he “would hope” to talk with Premier Khrushchev should the Soviet leader attend the autumn meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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