Herblock's West Side Story cover 1960/10/3

July 1 - RB-47 shot down

Aug. 10, - Discoverer 13 launched

• first successful test, after 12 failures, of the CORONA system approved by Eisenhower Feb. 7, 1958, to use rocket-launched satellites with cameras that returned film to earth in a cannister.

• the satellite "orbited the Earth for a day, and returned its canister to earth, where it was snatched out the air by a specially equipped aircraft on August 19. The camera carried on that flight would be retroactively designated the KH-1 (KH for KEYHOLE) and was cable of producing images with resolution in the area of 25-40 feet - a far cry from what would be standard in only a few years. It did yield, however, more images of the Soviet Union in its single day of operation than did the entire U-2 program" (quote from U.S. Satellite Imagery, 1960-1999 by Jeffrey T. Richelson)

Aug. 19, 1960 - Powers made confession during trial - 1

• "deeply repentant and profoundly sorry"
• jailed in Russia until exchanged for Rudolf Abel in Feb. 1962

Sep. 21- Khrushchev arrived in U.S. for 25 days

• to attend United Nations session
• Nehru, Nasser, Tito, Sukarno plus 14 new nations
• Khrushchev pounded table during Macmillan's speech
• Khrushchev embraced Castro

Nov. 4, 1960 - Kennedy defeated Nixon 34,227,096 to 34,108,546