Another Day On Earth

It was a Friday morning, a number of high-ranking space officials including Vasily Mishin and Boris Chertok flew to Baikonur to oversee final preparations for the first Soviet manned rocket launch in more than two years. In Washington, president Johnson was to have melon balls and hot tea for his breakfast in bed and in Atlanta the Mission Agency cancelled it's South African Crusade. On the same day, in the mountains of Bolivia, Ernesto 'Che' Geuvara and his guerilla returned to their cache to find twenty-three tins of milk, almost half of their supply, were missing. 'Tinned milk is a great corrupter' he noted in his diary that evening.

In England, in his rented shared kitchen in Kilburn, North London, Derek Bass used the last of the milk in his tea ... there was no sugar. The Daily Mail, left behind by another, lay on the table, open at page ten. 'Dianna Rigg To Quit The Avengers' it reported, He turned on the tatty transistor radio, it was playing the number one single 'Something Stupid'.

It was just another day on earth.

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... remaining mostly dry in the South-West