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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1961
Page
8
Maj Yuri Gagarin met world press in Moscow and said he wants to do much more in space. He offered few technical details about the 108 mile flight, fielding questions with prepared replies and a broad smile as scientists promised to publish data as it is processed.
Soviet Tass recounts the scenes at a secret launch site as Yuri Gagarin, a 27 year old air force major, sleeps ten hours before becoming the world’s first astronaut. Tass describes the ritual, the lift to the rocket, and the public adulation he received upon arrival in Red Square with Khrushchev praising his wife.
An astronaut reported during his flight that he maintained radio contact with the ground and ate specially prepared jellied food from tubes in the space craft. He said the sensation was the same as on the ground.
MACON France AP Police roundup of The Cream Gang a bootleg butter group Dairy worker with four accomplices accused of nightly thefts of a big cream tank from his plant They used an electric churn to convert cream to butter and sold it at cut rate prices while evading costs and authorities
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