Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the problems of radio and TV transmission from outer-space satellites practically solved, we can at last look forward to laxative commercials from the region of Mars, and words from our sponsor on "How to Break the Habit" from the sphere of Venus. The Man in the Moon will no doubt switch to Chesterfields-and there will be more sinister orders to come. From the ridiculous to the subliminal is only a second step...
Bust. In Denver, Pete McDonald bought space in the personals column of the Rocky Mountain News for a message: 'To my sponsors, friends and anyone else it may concern: I regret to state my climb of Pikes Peak on stilts has been temporarily delayed by a visit to the V.A. Hospital, Denver. However...
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...
...impressive as the rocket was its timing-accidental or designed. The shot heralded the mission to Washington of Khrushchev's No. 1 aide, Anastas Mikoyan (see Foreign Relations), dramatically topped the U.S.'s recent Atlas successes and put the U.S.S.R. ahead in the prestige-packed race for space. The cosmic rocket, Moscow said in a dozen languages, was the net result of "the creative toil of the whole Soviet people [in] the development of Socialist society in the interests of all progressive mankind...