Word: rockets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MIDDLE EAST: Russia had accused the U.S. of plotting with Turkey to attack Syria and set the probable D-day as Oct. 27. Both Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had flexed their new rocket muscles in promising to retaliate against Turkey (see FOREIGN NEWS). The U.S. fear was not so much that Russia would risk all-out war by Middle Eastern aggression, as such, but rather that it would dangerously spread its influence in the Arab world by appearing as the noisy champion of Arab Syria. The Eisenhower-Macmillan talks would dwell less on the intramural...
EVEN before Sputnik, Soviet scientists were freely predicting successful space flights to the moon by the early 1960s. Since the launching of their satellite, the timetable has been confidently pushed up. HOC IE CIIVTHHKA−I VHA (After Sputnik, the moon), the Russians proclaim, hinting that an unmanned rocket try at the moon might be planned from a Soviet launching site in the near future, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov.7...
...without passengers is portrayed in a cartoon film being shown in all seriousness to newsreel audiences in Russia, and seen for the first time in the U.S. this week. Produced under the direction of Yurie Khlebtsevich, chairman of a Soviet technical committee working on radio and television guidance of rockets, the movie depicts the use of an unmanned baby tank, crammed with scientific instruments, for the exploration of the moon's surface. The robot tank, as shown in these pictures from the film, would be carried through space inside a three-stage "cosmic" rocket, launched beyond the earth...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24--President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan called on their top aides today to begin immediate moves to pool British-American atomic and rocket resources for "greater service to the free world...
...mail-order houses and retailers everywhere happily hurled themselves into space. Advertising a $5.89 telescope in its new winter catalogue. Montgomery Ward urged: "Be an earth satellite observer." Spiegel's rocketed away with a "Super Satellite Station" for $3.98. Sears, Roebuck had a $6.37 "Radar Rocket Cannon,'' along with dozens of other fearsome armaments, and practically everyone wanted Tigrett Industries' $20 "Golden Sonic,'' a flying rocket ship powered only by a high-pitched whistle...