Word: radioing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was not a radical, despite the "howls of calamity" attending many of his innovations, Arthur M. Schlesinger '38, professor of History, said last night in a radio discussion of his book, "The Coming of the New Deal...
With the problems of radio and TV transmission from outer-space satellites practically solved, we can at last look forward to laxative commercials from the region of Mars, and words from our sponsor on "How to Break the Habit" from the sphere of Venus. The Man in the Moon will no doubt switch to Chesterfields-and there will be more sinister orders to come. From the ridiculous to the subliminal is only a second step...
Streaking through space, out of the gravitational pull of man's world, past the moon, toward an orbit around the sun last week went the most breathtaking new object of the century. It was the first man-made planet-a Russian rocket. "On January 2, 1959," Moscow radio proclaimed, "a cosmic rocket was launched toward the moon. The launching again demonstrates to the world the outstanding achievements of Soviet science and technology." The rocket, Moscow added, was a multi-stage rig that weighed 3,245 lbs., with a 796.5-lb. payload of instruments (see SCIENCE) and pennants bearing...
...word spread and was confirmed by Moscow radio, the U.S. recognized the sweep of the new Communist challenge, greeted it with respect. President Eisenhower, who had sent no message to the U.S.S.R. about Sputnik I, got off congratulations to the U.S.S.R. scientists for "a great stride forward in man's advance." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson observed that the U.S. is "not going far enough fast enough...
...Radio signals of the 1 1/2-ton projectile faded out as it passed the 370,960-mile mark and its 62nd hour aloft, in a headlong dash from the earth into man's greatest conquest of space...