Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...axis with a fervor and furor unknown in the chronicle of nations. By last week the number of national leaders and heads of state at the United Nations 15th General Assembly meeting had grown to 26, and there were more to come. Spinning round them like a sputtering Sputnik was Nikita Khrushchev himself-tossing off dire threats in curbstone interviews, dishing out amiable insults, and defiling the decorum of the U.N. with desk-pounding, finger-waggling interruptions...
Agitation in favor of sovietizing the American educational system has become increasingly apparent since the first Sputnik, Taylor noted. Although the Russians have made many striking achievements, he maintained, their emphasis upon a long and rigid study schedule has created a totally impersonal educational system...
...When Sputnik flashed across California, it lit dark places in the nation's biggest public school system. Heckled by parents, the state legislature named a blue-ribbon jury to examine the quality of California's schooling. Called the Citizens Advisory Commission, it was sparked by former University of California President Robert Sproul. Without pussyfooting, the group soon made clear its stance. It attacked the theory of education for "life adjustment" as non-education: "The school has neither the chief responsibility nor the means for dealing with all aspects of personal development . . . The school should foster in each student...
...Soviet Union last week went honors for the most spectacular satellite achievement since Sputnik I: Russian scientists became the first to send living animals into space orbit and to recover them successfully...
Pierce proposed the construction of communications satellites back in 1955, two years before Russia launched Sputnik. He found no takers. Then, when he learned three years later that NASA was experimenting with large, inflatable satellites-but to test air resistance, not space communications-Pierce took his case in person to Washington. He persuaded Sputnik-shocked Government officials to set aside funds for a space project that, however practical, was noncompetitive with Russia. Pierce's proposal was pragmatic indeed; in 1927, U.S. overseas telephone calls totaled only 11,000; last year 3,000,000 intercontinental calls were placed from...