RUSSIA WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT TO HEAR THE RUSSIANS TELL IT, ALL THE 
WORLD'S WOMEN WERE IN CHAINS BEFORE VALENTINA VLADIMIROVNA TERESHKOVA . AS 
THE FIRST WOMAN COSMONAUT LOOPED THE EARTH, TASS EXULTED : " 
A BRILLIANT STAR HAS FLARED UP IN THE COSMIC FIRMAMENT . 
IT OUTSHINES ALL THE FILM STARS IN THE WORLD . NEVER 
AND IN NO COUNTRY DID WOMEN EVER ATTAIN SUCH HEIGHT . 
" IN EVERY RUSSIAN VILLAGE, WOMEN CELEBRATED, AND CONGRATULATIONS WERE FIRED 
ALOFT FROM SUCH SOVIET HEROINES AS LYUBI LI, DESCRIBED IN THE 
PRESS AS " THE RENOWNED CORN PLANTER AND HERO OF SOCIALIST 
LABOR . " IN HER SPACE CAPSULE, VOSTOK VI, " VALYA 
" WAS STILL THE COMPLEAT SOVIET WOMAN . HER SPACE SUIT 
WAS EMBROIDERED WITH A SNOW-WHITE DOVE, AND SHE HAD HAD HER 
HAIR DONE BEFORE BLASTOFF . ONCE A TOMBOY, SHE NOW HAS 
AN ADMITTED WEAKNESS FOR SPIKED HEELS, STYLISH CLOTHES, AND A PERFUME 
CALLED RED MOSCOW . FROM SPACE SHE RADIOED GROUND CONTROL : 
" PLEASE TELL MAMMA NOT TO WORRY . " ONCE, WHEN 
GROUND SCIENTISTS LOST CONTACT WITH " SEAGULL " (VALYA'S ORBITAL CALL 
NAME), THEY HASTILY ORDERED HER COSMIC COMPANION IN VOSTOK V, LIEUT 
. COLONEL VALERY FEODOROVICH BYKOVSKY, TO TRY AND ROUSE HER . 
" SORRY, I WAS HAVING A SNOOZE, " APOLOGIZED VALYA . 
MISSED RENDEZVOUS . OVER THEIR RADIOS, VALYA AND VALERY SANG SONGS 
OF FRIENDSHIP TO EACH OTHER, FLASHED " BEST WISHES TO THE 
INDUSTRIOUS AMERICAN PEOPLE " AND " WARM GREETINGS TO THE MULTIMILLIONED 
CHINESE . " LOOSENING THEIR HARNESSES, BOTH COSMONAUTS PERFORMED CALISTHENICS WHILE 
FLOATING WEIGHTLESSLY IN THEIR CABINS . BUT THOUGH THE TWO VOSTOKS 
PASSED WITHIN THREE MILES OF EACH OTHER, THEIR ORBITAL PATHS WERE 
SO DIVERGENT THAT THEY COULD NOT RENDEZVOUS . SINCE U.S . 
SCIENTISTS HAD FULLY EXPECTED THE TWO CAPSULES TO LINK UP IN 
SPACE, THEY SPECULATED THAT SOVIET SCIENTISTS HAD MADE A LAUNCHING MISCALCULATION 
. THREE DAYS AND 48 ORBITS AFTER TAKEOFF, VALYA RE-ENTERED THE 
ATMOSPHERE, WAS EJECTED FROM HER CAPSULE AND FLOATED TO EARTH BY 
PARACHUTE NEAR A SMALL VILLAGE IN KAZAKHSTAN ; SLOWED BY ANOTHER 
PARACHUTE, THE EMPTY VOSTOK VI LANDED NEAR BY . TWO HOURS 
AND 46 MINUTES LATER AND SOME 500 MILES AWAY, BYKOVSKY LANDED 
SIMILARLY IN THE MEADOW OF A COLLECTIVE FARM AFTER A RECORD 
81 ORBITS AND 119 HOURS ALOFT . BUT BYKOVSKY WAS ALL 
BUT FORGOTTEN IN THE FUROR OVER VALYA . TELEVISION COMMENTATORS DESCRIBED 
HER " CORNFLOWER BLUE EYES, " AND PEASANTS SHOWERED HER WITH 
BOUQUETS . OVERCOME BY HER WELCOME, VALYA BROKE INTO TEARS ; 
IT WAS THE FIRST TIME, MOSCOW ASSURED THE WORLD, THAT ANYONE 
HAD SEEN HER CRY SINCE SHE WAS A CHILD . IN 
A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, SHE ADMITTED THAT SHE HAD 
BRUISED HER NOSE IN LANDING, SAID THAT THE " PEOPLE RECEIVED 
ME VERY CORDIALLY IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER WITH BREAD AND SALT 
. " FORESIGHTEDLY, SHE HAD BROUGHT ALONG PHOTOGRAPHS OF HERSELF AND 
PASSED THEM OUT TO WORKERS WHO GREETED HER, GIVING MOST OF 
THE PICTURES TO WOMEN . " I PREFER WOMEN TODAY, " 
SHE SAID . " THE MEN SHOULDN'T COMPLAIN . " WHEN 
SHE FLEW INTO MOSCOW FOR HER OFFICIAL RECEPTION THREE DAYS LATER, 
VALYA WAS GREETED BY MORE FLOWERS THAN ANYONE HAD EVER REMEMBERED 
SEEING BEFORE IN THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL, A BEAR HUG AND KISS 
FROM KHRUSHCHEV, AND HER BEST BEAU, BACHELOR COSMONAUT ANDRIAN NIKOLAYEV . 
PAPER DOLLS . THOUGH RUSSIA'S SECOND DOUBLE SHOT ADDED LITTLE NEW 
TO SPACE TECHNOLOGY, THE FACT THAT VALYA WAS NOT A PILOT 
AND ADMITTEDLY WAS MECHANICALLY UNSOPHISTICATED RAISED THE QUESTION OF WHY U.S 
. ASTRONAUTS ALL MUST BE SKILLED TEST PILOTS . THE ANSWER 
FROM NASA OFFICIALS : USE OF TEST PILOTS PERMITS THE ELIMINATION 
OF SPACE-CONSUMING AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT IN THE CRAMPED CAPSULES . BUT SOME 
AUTHORITIES ARE CONVINCED THAT YOUNG SCIENTISTS WOULD BE FAR MORE EFFECTIVE 
IN OBSERVING AND ANALYZING UNEXPECTED SPACE FLIGHT PHENOMENA. SAYS CLINTON ANDERSON, 
CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE SPACE COMMITTEE : " THE RUSSIANS HAVE 
PROVED TO US THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE 20 YEARS 
OF TEST-PILOT EXPERIENCE BEFORE YOU CAN HANDLE ONE OF THESE CAPSULES 
FERVENT AGREEMENT WAS VOICED BY U.S . FEMINISTS . SAID JANE 
HART, WIFE OF MICHIGAN SENATOR PHILIP HART AND LEADER IN THE 
FIGHT TO GET WOMEN ASTRONAUTS ACCEPTED BY SOLIDLY MISOGYNISTIC NASA : 
" I'M TEMPTED TO GO OUT TO THE BARN AND TELL 
THE STORY TO MY HORSE AND LISTEN TO HIM LAUGH . 
" ADDED CLARE BOOTHE LUCE : " WE MUST STOP TRYING 
TO MAKE PAPER DOLLS OF OUR WOMEN . " ANTHROPOLOGIST MARGARET 
MEAD WARNED : " THE RUSSIANS TREAT MEN AND WOMEN INTERCHANGEABLY 
. WE TREAT MEN AND WOMEN DIFFERENTLY . " AND VIVE 
LA DIFFERENCE, SAID AT LEAST ONE RUSSIAN MALE LAST WEEK . 
" MY AGE AND CONSERVATIVE MENTAL MAKEUP COMPELLED ME TO THINK 
UP TO THE LAST FEW DAYS THAT WE MEN WERE THE 
RULERS OF MAN'S MIND AND THE SALT OF THE EARTH, " 
SAID NOVELIST MIKHAIL (AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON) SHOLOKHOV . " 
AND WHAT DO WE SEE NOW ? A WOMAN IN SPACE 
! SAY WHAT YOU WILL, THIS IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE . IT CONTRADICTS 
ALL MY SET CONCEPTIONS OF THE WORLD AND ITS POSSIBILITIES . 
MANY SCIENTISTS DOUBT ASTRONAUT GORDON COOPER'S REPORT OF SEEING TRUCKS ON 
THE ROAD AND SMOKE COMING OUT OF CHIMNEYS IN TIBET . 
ACCORDING TO DR . W . R . ADEY OF U.C.L.A., 
THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO SEEING OBJECTS 1 IN . IN DIAMETER 
4,000 FT . AWAY . HE THINKS COOPER HAD DISORDERS OF 
VISION OR JUDGMENT . 