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...gave a good deal of information. Sputnik III carries no man, dog or other experimental organism, and it is not designed to return to earth. Writing in Pravda, Academician L. I. Sedov said that it could have carried a man, but "such an experiment would be premature." Professor Evgeny Fedorov, an official spokesman, said that Sputnik III had been launched with "customary chemical fuels," not with atomic energy, and the launching technique was about the same as with the earlier Sputniks...
Sputnik III, said Fedorov, is an automatic spaceborne laboratory capable of making observations of many kinds. Its instruments, which account for 2,129 Ibs. of its weight, are "considerably improved" over those of the earlier Sputniks. They are mainly in three groups. One group observes conditions in the earth's atmosphere, including composition, pressure, ionization, electrical phenomena and the earth's magnetic field. Another observes nonearthly phenomena, such as cosmic rays, meteorites and solar radiation...
Reporters began to line up a full hour and a half before the start of President Eisenhower's first press conference last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In all, 294 newsmen were on hand, including Tass Correspondent Mikhail Fedorov. The crowd was so big that only newsmen with White House press cards were admitted, thus closing the conference to editors, publishers and other visiting firemen who may have hoped...
...foreign policy conference at Colgate University, Casey Jones charged: "Fedorov is not a newspaperman at all . . . He was sent to Washington from Moscow . . . not for his knowledge of America or his journalistic skill, but because of his Politburo training . . . I ask [an] investigation of Fedorov...
...What did Fedorov think of such attacks? "It stinks," he said. "Up to now I thought that the American reporters had treated me very well...