Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actual subway time from Brooklyn to The Bronx: one hour and 20 minutes. Actual running time of Russia's Sputnik I: one hour and 36.2 minutes...
...Rosenberg, speaking at Fordham University Law School: "The space age promises to require far greater concessions of national sovereignty to international control and regulation. Earth satellites are circling the globe now in about the same time that it takes to get from Brooklyn to The Bronx by subway.* Since Sputnik, the question 'How high is up?' has taken on vast new significance. While historically sovereign jurisdiction extends to the air above the land, it would be totally unfeasible for such jurisdiction to extend to outer space. International control will be imperative...
Commenting on the advisability of attending a summit conference without Soviet guarantees, Alphand said, "After the Russians have woken you up with a Sputnik, they want to put you asleep with a summit...
Publicity given to secondary education since Russia's Sputnik victory probably contributed to the 60 per cent increase in application to the School of Education's Master of Arts in Teaching Program, John D. Herzog, assistant to the Dean of the Faculty of Education, said yesterday...
...better in Moscow than he ever has before. Certainly it was his first hearing before such a knowledgeable, big-time audience. Trying last week to account for Van's sudden starry appearance in the musical firmament, a Radio Moscow interviewer put it this way: "He is the American Sputnik-developed in secret...