Word: laika
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just heard that he is Nikita Khrushchev. A better choice would have been Laika...
This year, as usual, many of you nominated your own candidates (see LETTERS). Among the nominees: Billy Graham, Governor Faubus, Laika, Jonas Salk, President Eisenhower, Bert and Harry Piel, Khrushchev, Nobel Prizewinner Lester Pearson, Mike Todd and two, symbolic nominees, the scientist and the American Negro...
...horrible monstrosities we have created to defend ourselves from destruction and to destroy other people who likewise are preparing similar machines to defend themselves from destruction by us. In the frenzied direction we are now headed, to avoid sudden destruction we seem to be preparing to perish slowly, like Laika, in a bigger and better metallic cage...
...that yowling about Laika gave me a pain. Do these dog lovers know that every day in our own grand and glorious country thousands of poor, worn-out old horses are driven up ramps to the slaughter-to provide food for their lousy pets...
Catching up with the rumors, the Russians officially declared Laika dead (of asphyxiation) last week and declared that they never had any intention of bringing her back alive. Said Physiologist Aleksei Pokrovsky, trainer of space dogs: "Since the problem, of recovery has not yet been solved, it would have been useless to add to the satellite's weight by burdening it with such apparatus...