melodies from this concert became the basis for songs by frank senatre and silind. patent for water skis was issued. it was received by engineer fred uller from new york. in fact, he became the second inventor to come up with water skiing. the first to do this , 3 years before waller, was an eighteen-year-old american from minnesota, ralph samuelson. he lengthened and widened ordinary skis and tested them on the water. uhler nothing about his predecessor did not know. he himself came up with other mounts , a way that made it possible to install a movie camera on skis in order to film while moving. in the soviet union, water skiing gained a lot of popularity. later, by the way, thanks to yuri gagarin, the first cosmonaut became interested in this sport even before flying into space, and thanks to his efforts, the soviet union had its own water-skiing federation. on october 27, 1962, the cuban missile crisis reached its highest critical point. on that day , an american plane was shot down over cuba and surfaced soviet submarine. the world was on the verge of a global