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COLD WAR: Man Up?

Moscow censors this week cleared a press association story reporting that the Soviet Union had launched an experimental rocket carrying a human passenger 186.42 miles into the upper atmosphere. The story said the rocketeer had parachuted successfully to earth. There was no official announcement by the Kremlin, immediately.

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