Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rocket's supposed fall has never been definitely verified. Early in December Russia claimed that it had come down in United States territory...
PARIS, Dec. 18--Atlantic Alliance leaders agreed unanimously today to gird Europe for push-button rocket warfare. This victory for President Eisenhower's strategy of nuclear stockpiles and medium-range missile bases in Britain and on the Continent was a NATO summit conference compromise...
Yesterday's prediction concided almost exactly with Whipple's forecast made late in October when he said that the satellite would probably fall about a month after the rocket...
Whipple made the forecast on the basis of October and November observations of the satellite and on comparison with the behavior of Sputnik's rocket, which is presumed to have fallen to earth on the night of November...
...Russia, which the Sputniks blazoned across the world's skies. Last week there was growing concern that the U.S., to whom they had looked for comfort and new leadership to meet the Sputniks' challenge, was failing their hopes. Doubts deepened when, with a thunderous rumble, the Vanguard rocket burned on its launching pad at Cape Canaveral and tossed the tiny U.S. satellite, bleating electronically, on the ground. All over Europe the U.S.'s critics snickered, and its friends quailed...