Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position that the U.S. is not in a space race with the U.S.S.R.: as a result of Soviet space successes and U.S. space failures, the prevailing opinion in the world today is that the U.S.S.R. is ahead of the U.S. in science and technology. "The successful launching of Sputnik I created an intensity of reaction throughout the world which has rarely been paralleled by any other single discovery or invention...
...construction (1929-32) of the mammoth Kuznetsk steel plant as a key part of the first five-year plan, helped boost Russia's annual steel output from 4,000,000 tons before World War I to its present 60 million, played a large part in the development of Sputnik; in Moscow...
...season of Sputnik and missile triumphs, the Soviet Union has about five times as many people working on the land as the U.S. does, and producing less. Presiding at a year-end Communist Central Committee meeting on the Soviet farm problem, Premier Nikita Khrushchev acknowledged that the 1959 grain harvest had been disappointing, allowed himself to be angry and sarcastic about...
Long a hot topic among pundits, whose jargon phrase for it is "the population explosion," the startling 20th century surge in humanity's rate of reproduction may be as fateful to history as the H-bomb and the Sputnik, but it gets less public attention. Today two-thirds of the human race does not get enough to eat. And it is among the hungry peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America that the population explosion is most violent. In 1900 there was one European for every two Asians; by 2000 there will probably be four Asians for every European...
...Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* The U.S. missile program takes an hour-long examination. Title question: "The Space Lag: Can Democracy Compete?" Others: "Could the U.S. have launched Explorer 1 before the Russians launched Sputnik 1?" "Is a democracy badly impeded in the race for space with a dictatorship?" Thurs., Jan. 7 Special Tonight...