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Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). A beep about radar, by a couple of university research men, that sounds out everything from foggy airplane landings to stellar explosions to speeding tickets...
Cuckoonik. In Brussels, at the World's Fair, Milwaukean Albert O. Trostel Jr. wondered what made the beep in the souvenir Sputnik he bought in the Russian Pavilion, pried it open, found the words Made in Switzerland...
...doubt, said he, the Communist rulers gained a success in Sputnik. "But Sputnik, mocking the American people with its beep-beep, may go down in history as Mr. Khrushchev's boomerang. A wave of mortification, anger and fresh determination swept the country. Out of that mood is coming a more serious appraisal of the struggle...
...landed in oblivion, the United Press staged its own excursion into the wild blue yonder. Panted a U.P. bulletin from Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European radio stations, said U.P., had picked up a "mysterious beep-beep-beep" which lasted three times as long as the signal from an orbiting Sputnik and "suggested the Doppler effect* that would be produced by a transmitter speeding away from the earth...
...space-singed A.P. waited 42 minutes, then filed a carefully sublunar story reporting that a ham operator near Columbus. Ohio, had now picked up the beep. "He suggested," said the A.P., "that it might be a signal from some kind of space vehicle." In A.P.'s second story British Broadcasting Corp. engineers pronounced that the signal was probably earthbound. The A.P. finally traced the beep to the "electronic groan" of an idling Russian teleprinter on the 20-megacycle band used by the Sputniks. (The teleprinter was on 20.025 mc.; the Sputnik frequency...