Word: racing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Complacency. The U.S. can count up a dozen successful space shots of its own since Sputnik I, but in a broad view of the space-technology race, the U.S. has greater cause for alarm in October 1959 than it had in October 1957. Two years ago it seemed certain that the U.S., jolted out of complacency by Sput nik I, would proceed to catch up in a hurry. But the U.S. is still lagging behind...
...keep oozing out of Washington, but they seem fatuous in view of Soviet space performances. With their boasts about the U.S.'s more "sophisticated" space hardware, Washington officials sometimes sound as if they think that U.S. and Soviet rockets are engaged in a beauty contest instead of a race for national prestige, power, and perhaps survival. The plain fact demonstrated by the latest Soviet moon shot, and the shot that hit the moon on the eve of Nikita Khrushchev's visit, is that Soviet rockets are still outperforming the U.S.'s best...
...virus of nationalism spread across Africa and the newly autonomous republics of Charles de Gaulle's French Community sprang up throughout the continent, the Belgian Congo suddenly caught freedom fever. Early this year, after Leopoldville, capital of the Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal delays and without rash haste." Last week, despite all of Belgium's careful timetables (local council elections next December, establishment of the first parliament next year), the freedom-hungry Congo appeared to be hurtling headlong toward...
...investigation widens, enters the caves of Negro London, from the lichenous flat of Tribal Chieftain Horace Big Cigar to Tulip's, a jazz club where a superbly directed, superbly erotic dance explores the universal rhythm of the Negro race. Whom did Sapphire know before she crossed the color line? One Negro girl is ready to tell, says: "I hated that high-yellow doll"; Sapphire had stolen her man. The police find him, a Negro bishop's son with a Mayfair manner and an Oxford accent. Had the bishop's boy ever intended marriage with Sapphire? Good heavens...
...Pennsylvania-Princeton game this week carries major significance in the race. A win for the Tigers would restore them to prominence in the League. If Penn wins, the Red and Black will be the team to beat for Ivy League honors...