Applause, Encores Salute Yale Chorus
By Lacy Banks
An enthusiastic reception and a demand for three encores greeted the Yale Russian Chorus last night in their third annual concert at KU.
"We drew more people than we ever had," Bruce Cochener, Topeka junior and KU-Y chairman, said. "There were about 500 people here tonight and for the first time the KU-Y broke even financially."
The program is designed to pay for itself, Cochener continued, and this time it did. The concert, sponsored by the KU-Y, is hoped to "give KU students and faculty members a chance to hear and to understand the culture and thinking of another people as represented by their music." Cochener continued.
THE PROGRAM LAST night consisted of liturgical, soldier, and folk songs of Russia. The concert also included two songs that were considered special in the chorus' repertoire.
The first, Mozart's "Ave Verum," a religious number, was first performed by the chorus in 1962 in Berlin.
At the time, a young East German boy had been fatally shot by East German guards as he tried to escape across the Berlin Wall. The boy died about 50 yards from the American sector of the West German gate.
"We felt that a gesture of American sympathy needed to be expressed. We gave a memorial service for him and sang this song there," Daniel Gsovski, conductor of the chorus, said, explaining the chorus' attachment to the song.
The other special non-Russian song was a sea shanty translated: "The Sailors of Groix." This song, performed on their first European tour in 1962, Gsovski said, won the $1500 first prize for male choruses at the Festival de Chant Choral, in Lille, France. It was sponsored by the Television-Francaise.
THE YALE RUSSIAN Chorus started in 1953, Thomas Holahan, Yale first year graduate student in philosophy, said in a KU-Y discussion preceding the concert.
"It evolved from the Yale Russian Club. One day a club member was asked to talk about Russia." Holahan said. "The student, instead of talking about Russia, suggested that the group sing Russian folk songs.
"The group enjoyed the song fest so much that Denis Mickiewicz, then a Yale graduate student of music, found good support in starting the Yale Russian Chorus." Holahan said.
Since 1953 the group has traveled to Russia during the summers of 1958-60, 1962 and 1964. Holahan said.
The concerts the group gives in Russia are of a very informal nature, Frank Abrams, second-year student of the Yale Law School and a chorus member, said. He explained that this prevented being under rigid restrictions by the Russian government.
"THIS TYPE OF an arrangement facilitated cultural exchange," Conductor Gsovski said. "Conversations resulting from the informal gatherings on the street corners of Russia often led to house invitations to talk on different subjects for hours."
According to Abrams, the chorus would assemble on a specific street corner of a Russian city and begin singing American folk songs while curious people would gather.
"Then we would sing Russian Cossack folk songs," Abrams said. "These songs are lively with shouts and stomps. Russians really like these sings. After the crowd had gathered, we would sing other Russian and American folk music.
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Daily Hansan
THE MOST complete series of the moon ever taken will aid future moon flights to the lunar surface.
Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) which controlled the Ranger flight, said many small craters never viewed before were seen on the floor of Alphonsus. Also it showed what appeared as a jagged crack on the floor of the crater.
"It was go from launch to impact, on schedule," a JPL technician exclaimed.
The first picture to be flashed on home screens in stereooption fashion appeared to be clear. It showed a large crater and two smaller
At the last few seconds before impact the screen showed numerous craters in great detail. The pictures appeared to viewers to "come up and hit you in the face."
The weather bureau issued an occasional snow warning for tonight with precipitation ending tomorrow morning.
NEW PLAY—A battered, paint-smeared replica of the American flag is the backdrop for this rehearsal scene from U.S.A., an upcoming Experimental Theatre play by John Dos Passos, depicting people and events from 1900 to 1920. Pictured left to right are: Karin Gold, Overland Park senior; Mary Lynn Shea, Merrigan senior; Mary Lou Groom, Arlington, Va., freshman; Don Ferguson, Manhattan Beach, Calif., senior; Kip Niven, Prairie Village sophomore, and Bruce Levitt, Kansas City freshman. The play runs March 25-27 and March 30-April 3.
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It will be cloudy and cold through tomorrow with northeast-ly winds 10 to 20 miles per hour. The low tonight is expected to be 10 to 15, the weather bureau predicted.
Ranger 9 Moon Probe Sends Live Lunar Pictures to Earth
THE SNAPSHOTS, including histories first for "live" television, flashed 245,500 miles through space and ended the Ranger project in America's moon exploration. Further probes will be made by successors to Ranger.
A battery of television cameras aboard the spacecraft sent back to earth a series of pictures of the lunar crater Alphonsus for about 20 minutes before the last of the Rangers crashed to destruction with pin-point accuracy 8:08 a.m. (CST).
PASADENA, Calif. — (UPI) Ranger 9, blazing a trail through outer space for astronauts to follow, flashed live pictures of an arid lunar crater to American televiewers today before crashing on the moon at 5,971 miles an hour.
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craters toward the lower bottom of the picture. Crater Alphonsus was in the lower left hand corner.
More than 500 square miles of the highlands of the moon were covered by the first sequence of pictures, with the field gradually narrowing as Ranger raced in to impact.
SCIENTISTS AT JPL described the pictures as of "excellent quality" and scanning well.
The lunar views, sent back by six RCA television cameras in the rocket's nose, alternated between sharp definition and a lighter and slightly fuzzy picture.
A cheer went up in the control room at the laboratory when it was announced the pictures were coming through after a 45-second warmup mode. Scientists said all camera systems were operating.
OTHER PICTURES flashed on television included crater Ptolemaeus, 85 miles in diameter; Alphonsus' floor, 55 miles in diameter; and crater Alpertragius, 55 miles in diameter.
Scientists said the pictures were better than could be obtained from earth under any conditions.
Millions of Americans throughout the country had a ringside seat to history-in-the-making as American science and the major
networks brought them a television spectacular with their morning toast and coffee for the second consecutive dav.
TUESDAY IT was the historic two-man Gemini space flight of astronauts Virgil I. Gus Grissom and John W. Young.
The one-two triumphs added new laurels to America's space program, but were only pioneering steps in a continuing effort to explore and survey the lunar landscape for a safe spacecraft landing site by 1970.
Camera crews from ABC, CBS and NBC television networks were on hand at JPL to bring the historic television coverage to viewers all over the nation.
JPL SCIENTISTS made a terminal correction to position Ranger 9's six RCA television cameras for the best possible photos of the lunar crater.
So accurate was the flight path of the last Ranger in the $270 million program, that only a minute mid-course correction was required Tuesday.
The correction, by radio signal, altered Ranger 9's course so that it was calculated to impact only four miles off its "bullseye"—just northeast of the moon's Alphonsus crater.
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ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER INTREPID—(UPI)—Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young, the pioneering Gemini pilots who put new life into America's man-in-space program, headed home today to a welcome from a proud nation.
Astronauts, Capsule Coming Back to U.S.
With them on this 40,000-ton fighting ship was the scorched Gemini-3 capsule that carried them on a near-perfect three-orbit ride through space Tuesday and cleared the way for a four-day Gemini flight in about three months.
The two space pilots, one of whom had a brief bout with seasickness in their bobbing "Molly Brown" spaceship after landing in the Atlantic, were declared in fine physical condition.
BOTH PILOTS were up early today after a good night's sleep. Their schedule called for a lengthy series of technical reviews of their four hour and 54-minute journey.
Dr. R. G. McIver, an Air Force physician who flew in the helicopter that lifted Grissom and Young from the capsule to the carrier, said both astronauts appeared in good shape immediately after the flight.
That diagnosis was later confirmed by Dr. E. R. Geiger and other physicians who examined them Tuesday night. It was disclosed that one of the pilots, not identified, became seasick before being hoisted aloft by the helicopter. He quickly recovered and ate a hardy dinner on the Intrepid.
The astronauts examined their spaceship Tuesday night on the hanger deck of the vessel. As scores of sailors ganged around, Grissom and Young studied intensely the seared heat shield that had protected them from the 1,700-degree reentry heat. The capsule, the American flag painted on its side partially blistered from the fiery return from space, appeared in good condition.
Later Tuesday night the pilots received telephone calls from their wives.
AHEAD OF THEM lay the acclaim of the nation—in a news conference at Cape Kennedy, Fla., Thursday and a personal meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House Friday.
And behind them now was a near-perfect space voyage that put the United States back in business in the manned space race after a 22-month lapse by demonstrating the value of the two-man Gemini spaceship.
"We are ready to proceed with the Gemini program," was the way Charles Mathews, Gemini program manager, summed up the result of the Grissom-Young flight, the first by a two-man U.S. spacecraft.
NEXT STEP is a four-day voyage in late June or early July and, after that, a seven-day trip later this year in which U.S. astronauts will partially match last week's Soviet efforts by opening the hatch of their craft and taking a peek around space.