Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days past, Karandash, a famed Russian clown, had been convulsing Moscow audiences by exploding a small balloon, then explaining, "That is the American Sputnik." Never one to pass up a surefire gag, Nikita, too, harped on U.S. discomfiture: "The U.S. announced that it was preparing to launch an earth satellite to be called the Vanguard. Not anything else. Just Vanguard . . . But it was the Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia's new technological power as an instrument of international blackmail: "We would like...
...Ph.D. Since competition for a place in at least the major colleges is keen, students are aware as never before of their academic record-a record that has followed them from their very first days of school. "With more and more guys graduating from college," says Columbia Senior Peter Earth, "you're no longer looked up to if you went to college. You're just looked down upon if you didn't get a degree." But a simple bachelor's degree is not really enough. At Harvard, where only one in 100 students now qualifies...
Thielicke sharply disagrees with Karl Earth's notion that Communism is a-Christian rather than antiChristian, or with the idea that Christianity could live in a Communist-dominated world. "If the Russian steamroller flattens everything up to the Atlantic Ocean because the West has nothing in the way of defense," Thielicke has written, "then we will be denied the capability of shaping a world having proper inner and social values . . . Once dead, one cannot regenerate oneself, even inwardly...
Reports were conflicting about the fate of the dog riding in Sputnik 11. For six days after the launching, Russian scientists reported that she was well and that data about her physical condition were being radioed to earth. On the seventh day the Russians reported as usual on the motions of Sputnik II but did not mention its famed passenger. Two days later Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unita reported that the dog had been killed by a drug in her last portion of food...
Despite hints from individual Russians, there has been no official Russian promise to bring the dog back to earth, either dead or alive. Dr. John P. Hagen, director of U.S. Project Vanguard, thinks the Russians never intended to. Even if already dead, the dog cannot merely be pushed into space like the dog in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (see cut). Rocket "braking" is necessary. Dr. Hagen believes that the weight of Sputnik 11 is not enough to include the rocket fuel that would be needed to check the speed of the satellite and bring...