Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Volume Two is an account of the period 1950 to 1960 and covers the rise of McCarthy, Khruschchev's anti-Stalin speech, Hungary, Suez, Iraq, Quemoy, Sputnik and the Summits. From a careful examination of these events, their interrelation, and the pre-War period, Fleming says, "It is difficult to find evidence of any desire on the part of the Soviets to plunge into conflict with the West." The Cold War is made to seem a creation of the West; so too is the iron curtain. Fleming even relates the Hungarian Revolt to the forced armament of Eastern Europe following...
...illuminated the extraordinary American commitment to space. Space was frontpage news every day of the week, and the news was of failure and frustration. But the public reaction was a far cry from the humiliation and bafflement Americans felt four years ago, when their first feeble efforts to match Sputnik I were fizzling. There were no demands for anybody's head, there were few doubts that what ever had gone wrong one week would be fixed another week-soon. The Adminis tration had asked Congress to raise space spending $5.5 billion-nearly double the money spent last year...
...penetrate their society in every possible way. Says he: "I have far less apprehension about what the Russians might do within the World Council than I would if the Russian Orthodox Church remained apart from us, burying itself in its own mystical world and ignoring the Sputnik world outside...
Since the race began with the 1957 firing of Sputnik I, the U.S. has been handicapped by rockets with far less thrust than the Russian models. Forced to work with small payloads, the U.S. skillfully miniaturized instruments, gathered a library of data from space, and prided itself on the "sophistication" of its equipment. But the big, brute-power feats belonged almost exclusively to the U.S.S.R. The rockets that orbited the two Russian astronauts earlier this year had developed an estimated 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust. At the time, the most powerful U.S. rocket in operation...
Founded in 1930 by twelve enthusiasts, the American Rocket Society never had more than 400 members before the end of World War II. Its meetings had few if any commercial exhibitors. After the war. the society grew faster. Then, in 1957, the year of Sputnik I, it soared like one of its better rockets. By last week, ARS had 19,500 members, and most of the nation's largest corporations (including Bell Telephone, General Motors, and Standard Oil of New Jersey) were expensively represented at its convention. California air plane manufacturers moved on New York en masse, adding traditional...