Word: russianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baiter suddenly mellows. The issue of politics in the Cambridge schools may not seem important to a student, but it is vital to the men and women on both sides of the question. Whether the "good guys" or the "bad guys" win probably won't matter much to the Russian satellite or the trouble in the Middle East, but it is the stuff of American politics, and it is a phenomenon that no participant or spectator is likely to forget.Incumbent School Committeeman and Education School Dean JUDSON T. SHAPLIN '42 left talks CCA strategy with former Mayor and incumbent Council...
Pipes, a Research Associate in the Russian Research Center, will moderate the discussion...
...special session of Congress. To retired Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, it was merely "a nice technical trick." To hundreds of U.S. scientists, it was a marvelous scientific-technical achievement, a triumph of mind over universal matter-and at the same time a last-chance signal to beware of onrushing Russian technology. To the man whose job it was to speak and act for the U.S. and the free world, it was a challenge...
...quest for man's moon has never been "considered as a race.'' It was "merely an engagement on our part to put up a vehicle of this kind." The achievement would be in terms of knowledge about "temperatures, radiation, ionization, pressures." To be sure, the Russian satellite meant possession "of a very powerful thrust in their rocketry, and that is important." But this, in current terms, was militarily meaningless: "I don't know anything about their accuracy, and until you know something about their accuracy, you know nothing at all about their usefulness in warfare." Even...
Strong Warnings As far back as early 1954, U.S. Intelligence suspected that the Russians had started on a high-priority satellite program. At the IGY conference in Barcelona a year ago, Russian scientists spoke ebulliently and convincingly of their country's satellite progress. Evidence and warnings that the Russians were pressing hard to beat the U.S. in the race piled up-but seemed to make no impression on Administration policymakers. Asked at a November 1954 press conference whether he was concerned that the Russians might win the satellite race, Defense Secretary Wilson snorted: "I wouldn't care...