Word: sovietizers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question should be asked Khrushchev: How does he propose to keep Eastern Europe under Soviet domination simultaneously with total disarmament? It is quite obvious that these two policies are inconsistent...
...President of Notre Dame and a Soviet atomic energy executive may seem unlikely acquaintances, but acquaintances they are. Father Hesburgh met with Vasily Emelyanov at sessions of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The Notre Dame President and Frank M. Folsom, chairman of the Radio Corporation of America executive committee, are Vatican City's permanent representatives to the agency; Emelyanov represents the Soviet Union...
Pondering the meaning of Sputnik I back in October 1957, the London Express confidently predicted that the result of the Soviet push into space would be a U.S. drive to "catch up and pass the Russians" in space exploration. "Never doubt for a moment that America will be successful." the Express added. The U.S. agreed with that statement: of course it would catch up, and quickly...
...convinced that the U.S. space effort must be kept "within reason." Vice President Richard Nixon assured a press conference that the nation's space effort was "moving along at a reasonably good pace." Herbert F. York, the Defense Department's director of research and engineering, dismissed the Soviet lead in the space race as "more a question of acute embarrassment than national survival." Engineer T. Keith Glennan, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, called for a "sane course"-which in NASA bafflegab seems to mean the same program that has kept the U.S. lagging behind...
...years and close the military-missile gap. The military job of a ballistic missile is not to go to the moon but to hit an earthly target from a launching site elsewhere on the earth, and U.S. missiles appear to be about as fit for that job as their Soviet counterparts. But in concentrating on closing the gap in military-missile technology, the Eisenhower Administration neglected the challenge of space. When the U.S. undertook its first serious space project in mid-1955, as part of the International Geophysical year effort, the Administration settled for a minimal, low-priority program, misnamed...