Pe«! Space Twins Parachuted to Earth
By Preston Grover
MOSCOW LV — The Soviet
space twins said Tuesday they
parachuted to earth 125 miles
apart last Wednesday after a team
flight in which their space ships
once were separated by only about
three miles. There was no physical
contact in orbit.
Maj. Andrian Nikolayev and lit.
Col. Popovich scotched Western
speculation about a rendezvous and
disclosed some other details of their
orbital experiences at a news con
ference.
The official announcement last
Wednesday of the ends of the
flights, reported to have covered
a total of 2.8 million miles, said
the two landed on board ship and
their spaceships, the Vostok III
and Vostok IV, landed normally.
Nikolayev and Popovich said,
however, they ejected themselves
and came down by parachute while
the two ships settled to earth with
their own lowering systems. One
of Russia’s two earlier astronauts
landed similarly. The other said
he stayed with his ship.
Did Physical Exercises
Nikolayev said he did special
physical exercises on the next to
last of his 64 orbits to prepare his
body for the pull of gravity. On
the last circuit, he said, all lower
ing instruments and systems were
switched on.
“I thought that I shall soon be
on earth,” Nikolayev said. “I told
this to Popovich and he communi
cated within six minutes that the
lowering system had also been
switched on in his spacecraft.”
The retro-rockets then began
operating, braking down speeds of
about 17,500 miles an hour, and
the spaceships dropped gradually
into the denser atmosphere of the
earth.
“After the deceleration forces
had decreased,” Nikolayev said,
“there was for a moment a sensa
tion as if the ship were a cart on
a bad road. One felt the bumps
in the road. Then gradually, as the
deceleration forces diminished fur
ther to 1 ’ times normal gravity,
this sensation passed. After a cer
tain time I separated from the ship
and made my landing by para
chute.
A moment earlier Nikolayev had
made an unexplained reference to
“separation of the ship from the i
instrument compartment.” The of- |
fieial English translator gave it as!
“the capsule separated from the j
instruments department.” But thi i
reference concerned something be- j
fore the beginning of the descent.
Ready to Shake Hands
Nikolayev said that on the
closest approach of the Vostok III
and Vostok IV at the outset of the j
team flight Aug. 12 ‘‘we were ready |
to shake each other’s hand and to
congratulate each other on the
initial successes.
“The spaceships Vostok III and
Vostok IV were put into prede
termined orbit with exceptional ac
curacy as regards both time and
place,” Nikolayev said.
“We immediately e s t a b 1 ished
two - way radio communications,
learned how each other felt and
wished each other a happy jour
ney.”
His reference to the proximity
of the spaceships at the start of the
reputed group flight f o 1 lo w e d
speculation of some sources in the
West as to a rendezvous. Western
spotters noted they were several
hundred miles apart when the
flight ended last Wednesday.
Princess Margaret Is 32
ABBEYLEIX, England W) —
Princess Margaret celebrated her
32nd birthday Tuesday away from
the rest of the royal family for the
first time in many years. She and
her husband, Lord Snowdon, are
spending a quiet vacation here
with his brother-in-law and sister,
the Viscount and Viscountess De
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A11 Misumlcrstandi ngs
Ironed Out Between
U.S, and Bonn Government
BONN, Germany id' President
Kennedy has written a personal
letter to Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer and it was received “very
satisfactorily" by the West Ger
man Chancellor, a government
-■pokesman said Tuesday night.
The letter, handed to Adenauer
by U.S. Ambassador Walter Dow
ling, dealt with the U.S. position
regarding the current international
political situation, especially the
Berlin and German problems, the
spokesman said.
Me refused to give further de
tails, saving the letter was secret.
1 lowevcr, Bonn g o v e r n merit
sources said “all misunderstand
ings which have arisen in the past
weeks have been ironed out."
This appeared to confirm per
sistent reports here that U.S.-Gor
man relations recently had
worsened because of Kennedy's
reported coolness toward giving
NATO control over nuclear weap
ons.
These reports also said the West
German government was apprehen
sinve about reports from Washing
ton that Kennedy was willing to
recognize the Communist East
German regime in return for
Soviet agreement to stop insisting
that allied troops get out of West
Berlin.
Dowling, who returned from
consultations and leave in the
United States last week, had a long
conference with Adenauer after
handing over the President’s letter.
House Okehs Bill
To Sell Tracts of
Mineral Lands in Alaska
WASHINGTON W — The U.S.
House of Representatives approved
legislation Monday permitting the J
Secretary of the Interior to sell
tracts on mineral lands in Alaska,
with the federal government re
taining coal, oil and gas rights. The
bill now goes to the Senate.
Under present law, no townsite :
may be created in Alaska on pub
lic land classified as valuable or
potentially valuable for mining.
Rep. Ralph Rivers, author of the
bill, said the villa tes of Harrow
and Waimvright, located within
Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4.
are interested in attaining corpo
rate status on validly established
townsites.
"Passage of the bill not only
expedites matters for these two
communities but also paves the
way for similar developments else
where in Alaska as settlement
occurs," Rivers said.
The bill would extend to Alaska
provisions of townsite laws now
applicable in other states under
which rights to coal, oil and gas
would be reserved by the federal
government.
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Earthquake Rocks
Jackie's Vacation Area
NAPLES, Paly .? An earth
quake Tuesday night racked the
re,i v. hi’rc Mr-, .facquelino K< li
ned.v i: vacationing at a villa on
a seaside cliff at Ravello. No in
jura.- or serious damage were re- j
ported.
In Naples, third largest city of!
Italy, the quake scattered win
dows and cracker! concrete shell.1
of new buildings. Many of the- |
city’s 1.5 million people fled j
toward the bay.
The quake lasted five seconds i
and registered 5 on the 12-grade
Mercalli Intensity Scale.
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Ike and Kennedy Tangle
DUBLIN, Ireland ' s-P — Ike
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: ■ <!’. *■ da-.' the croc d- p ■ of
Dublin (ire.-hum Hotel.
Ike and John Fitzgerald ar a
rj.iir o| black French poodles be
loo .! • to '!'• In . O'S hi, . a, r ;i,i
a ■ r of the hotel.
"II would have to nap: en when
we have Gen. Ei. enhower as our
distinguished guest,” said the em
bat ra.~ ci <)’Sul!ivan.
I) ah: Ei'-enhov.<r. f r: . US
Pr«■: ident. arrived Ts - or- F ' e
windup ol hi.' European t-ightsec
ing tour.
The dogs’ rmner < ha:: ■ : iwd
when he named them, he had ret.
the faintest idea that the original
Ike would be staying at his hos
telry.
O'Sullivan said he bought his
first poodle in the United States
during the 1956 Eisenho.vvr-Adlai
Stevenson Presidential campaign.
"I decided to name the dog after
the winner,” he said, “and when
Gen. Eisenhower won. 1 had * .
dog property registered w.th ' e
kennel club as Ike.”
Four years later the di . sir d
a litter of pups.
“Once more it was American
election time,” said the hotel man.
“And once more I decided to name
my dog after the winner. When
Air. Kennedy won, I called the
dog what I did.”
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