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...quintupling the press run of its first-and may order another 30,000. Publisher Wayne (American Aviation) Parrish's monthly Missiles and Rockets (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956) is put out for the trade, but its circulation has grown by almost a third (to 27,700) since the first Sputnik, and its ads are up 75% over last year despite the slump. Though aviation magazines are expanding coverage of the space age, they are losing advertisers to the specialized newcomers. McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week was down 112 pages of ads in January from a year...
...over-why not realize we are in the Sputnik Age? No wonder the Russians are ahead...
...recent months Nixon's dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower Administration's political savvy has caused him to take political stands independent of the White House, leaving the President free to disown him if he goes too far. Thus, while White House spokesmen were still scoffing at Sputnik I as a "silly bauble," Nixon publicly proclaimed the Russian satellite a serious, important challenge to U.S. technology. He works hard with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to bolster the morale of Republican organizations across the country, privately wishes that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson would resign to help the party...
This year Johnson's showy record-writing has been abetted considerably by the ineptness of Senate Republican leaders and the slow motion at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. After the uproar over the success of Sputnik, it was Johnson, as chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, who grabbed the initiative (and the headlines), set up hearings, heard expert testimony from about 200 of the top men in the Defense Department, the armed services, science and industry. So successful was he in capturing the attention of press and colleagues that he produced his own "State of the Union" message...
...Sputnik Choo-Choo. A space-age toy electric train with an airborne satellite was introduced by Kusan-Auburn Inc. As the train starts, a white ball of styrofoam rises on a steady stream of air from a car with a twin-turbine compressor, floats along one foot above the train until it stops. Other gimmicks: a revolving radar screen, searchlight, laboratory car, four extra satellites. Cost...