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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...
...methodical Germans gave Laika a properly Wagnerian title-die Himmels-hündin, the She-Hound of Heaven-and drew a moral from her flight. "For a few days, the world is again united," intoned the Stuttgarter Zeitung. "For a few days, black and white, democrats and communists, republicans and royalists in all countries, islands and continents have one feeling, one language, one direction . . . our feeling of compassion for this little living being twirling helplessly over our heads." The Stuttgarter Zeitung had apparently overlooked some dissonant voices, such as that of the Vietnamese farmer who complained...
...Mighty Laika Rose. The day-to-day suspense of survival in space lost nothing from the fact that the space pup changed names with almost every orbit. The New York Times, which devoted a special inside column to the tales of wags, at first identified it as Kudryavka. a female name meaning Curly. The Times then decided the dog was a male named Limonchik (Little Lemon). Even in Moscow, reported a Baltimore Sun correspondent, an economics journal called the dog Malyshka, while Evening Moscow claimed that its real name was Zhuchka. Most papers finally agreed that sputpup was a female...
...answer to The Moral Issue would be a suggestion that the Soviet Government raise a monument to Laika, where the school children can come with flowers and tears for the death of a friend, and joy, admiration and gratitude for the heroism of the first space traveller. Such emotions would contribute much more to the bettering of international relations than the panic of hysterical fear and hostility now evident...
Citizens immediately contacted police in the belief that it was Laika, from outer space. The police refuse to believe that Sputnik II has jettisoned its canine cargo, and attribute it to some airborne joker...