1961 has brought many changes to the world. Yuri Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut became the first man in space. In the United States, John Kennedy took office as the 35th president and that same year committed the nation to “landing on the moon by the end of the decade” with NASA’s Project Apollo. The UK lawyer Peter Benenson launched the “Appeal for Amnesty” which gave birth to Amnesty International and a global movement for human rights. In Germany, construction of ...