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...overall context of the cold war, the U.S. could view the exchange of visits with confidence-confidence in its own economic-technological strength, confidence that the advantages in East-West exchanges lay with the West. With nine satellites put into orbit around the earth, the U.S. had come a long way since the first Soviet Sputniks jolted the nation's confidence in the fall of 1957. And last week came the news of two more big strides in space-military technology: a 142-lb. paddle-wheel satellite that uses solar energy to power its transmitters and a monitoring system...
...Physicist P. M. Kubanski started publishing scientific papers about the effect of sound waves on heat transfer. There is at least a chance that the Russians are already using sonic controls in some of their rockets-and that in turn might explain how they got those giant Sputniks in orbit...
...summer, has set the tone of the show with a giant, 54-ft. curving aluminum fin: a slice of the universe, crisscrossed with red and yellow traceries of satellites, surrounded by full-scale models of the buglike Sputnik I and the heavy cone that carried the dog Laika into orbit. In the background rise four 48-ft. triangular columns, showing heroic Russians more than twice life-size over legends such as: THERE IS NO ILLITERACY IN THE SOVIET UNION...
...estimated $22 million for operating costs, another $56 million for sponsored research projects. It produces some of the country's ablest pure physicists; it has grown from the nation's main wartime radar laboratory to the leading center of electronics and computer development. Out of its orbit have spun a dozen graduate-launched electronics companies (e.g., Raytheon) in the golden brain center of surrounding Cambridge. It attracts more foreign professors (198 last year) and has a higher proportion of foreign students (12.4%) than any other U.S. institution. Above all, M.I.T. has led in broadening scientists by trying...
...easy-moving Neil McElroy, 54, got off to a dazzling start as Defense Secretary. Taking over from "Engine Charlie" Wilson in October 1957, five days after the first Soviet Sputnik soared into orbit, he gave the Army a prompt go-ahead to shoot its Jupiter-C into space while the Navy was still fumbling with its Vanguard. He ended the economy ban on overtime work in missile plants, lifted Wilson's numbing hold-down on spending for B-52 bombers, Strategic Air Command fuel, basic research. On orders from President Eisenhower, McElroy worked out and steered through Congress...