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...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 a high-level meeting of representatives of capitalist and socialist countries to take place so as to reach an agreement based on the consideration of true reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Seen & the Unseen | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

This small and utterly unique school, located on the outskirts of Princeton, New Jersey, resembles more closely a clubhouse or perhaps a country school than it does the most high-level institution of learning in the world. In this respect, it blends very well into the general land scape of the area which is, of course, dominated by that vast, educational country club, Princeton University...

Author: By Fredrick W. Byron jr., | Title: The Institute: Frontier of Learning | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

...Institute there are two striking examples of this educational theory in practice. The first is the Institute's abandoning the Electronic Computer Project. This project was begun in 1946 by John van Neumann as an attempt to give the mathematician and physicist a high speed computer. At first the task was novel and presented many high-level problems which only a mathematician and physicist of van Neumann's maturity and brilliance could cope with. In 1952, the machine was completed, and applied physicists in various companies began to improve upon the original until the Institute decided that...

Author: By Fredrick W. Byron jr., | Title: The Institute: Frontier of Learning | 11/9/1957 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7--The United States showed little interest today in Soviet Communist party chief Khrushchev's newest bid for a high-level East-West conference to settle cold war problems...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Ike Describes Science Program; Parley Bid Gets Cool Reception; Russia Reveals No New Missile | 11/8/1957 | See Source »

Congratulations on your color spread of the mighty Atlas fizzle at three miles. The Russians also had a scoop at the same time − which beat us by 557 miles. When will the U.S. awaken - or will high-level bickering and indifference, strikes at atomic weapon plants, and official stupidity prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 28, 1957 | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

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