Word: russianize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next was another familiar work, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, giving the ringers a chance to display the virtuosity for which they are so justly famous. Following this came one of the group's specialties, a group of Russian Folk songs, selected from The Fireside Book of Siberian Laments, an anthology which is second only to Bach's Clavieruebung in the ranks of the great musical collections. The ringers were generous enough to perform seven, the last in response to demands for an encore telephoned in during the intermission. It is hard to choose a favorite from among...
NEWS of Russia's missile triumph came to the U.S. from space on many frequencies, but the man whose job it was to make the most of the new Russian prestige in cold war terms was Mikoyan. On hand to greet him at New York's International Airport was TIME's Veteran Diplomatic Correspondent John Beal. For a report on the impersonal and personal aspects of Russia's big week, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Cosmic Challenge, Arrival in the Dark and Visitor from the Kremlin...
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...
Respectful Greeting. An hour or so before Moscow's first announcement, the U.S. got its first notion of the Russian rocket from a monitoring station in Hawaii. There technicians suddenly tensed as receivers detected an unearthly new sound of the century: signals from an unidentified vehicle out in space...
...hour before word of the Russian shot, the House space committee recommended that the U.S. probe the moon with a couple of Thor-Able rockets now lying at Cape Canaveral. Even after the news from Moscow, Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield disapproved-"a sign of panic." Underlying the absence of excuses-and the absence of panic-was a general public knowledge that the U.S. had already tried to hit the moon, had failed, had been left trailing by the Russians, but not by very much...