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...devastations of World War II, the Soviet Union has risen to rival American influence around the world. Russia has become the planet's leading producer of crude oil, coal, steel, pig iron, locomotives mineral fertilizers and other products. Soviet scientific accomplishments - from Sputnik to Soyuz to two-headed does - are uneven but often dazzling...
...easy courses proliferate, classes in the harder subjects wither away. Calculus and Russian, two post-Sputnik specialties, are extinct. Only 35 students are braving physics this year. Few kids prefer the nononsense, four-year algebra-geometry-algebra-trigonometry sequence to the simpler math courses. The attrition rate in foreign languages is so great that after the first year, students in higher courses are combined in one class. High-ability kids are not taking high-level courses," says Accounting Teacher James Whitty. The students ask: Why should we?" The school's course brochure advises college-preparatory students that they "should make...
...year of Sputnik, Fast declared his disenchantment with Soviet Communism in a book called The Naked God. It ensured his distinction as American letters' slowest study in Stalinism. Like the immigrants of his new novel, the author looked to California, where some of his earlier novels, including Spartacus, had been turned into film scenarios. He wrote science fiction and mysteries under the name E.V. Cunningham, eventually acquired a house in Beverly Hills, a Porsche and a yen for Zen Buddhism...
Connally noted that there had been periods of isolationism after both World Wars, the Korean War, and the Vietnam wars. The Russian launching of Sputnik broke the isolationism of the '50s, he added, beginning a successful American struggle for technological superiority...
...realistic that some viewers get airsick. Said a former Navy pilot: "My God, I'm getting vertigo." A life-size model of the Soviet Soyuz space vehicle coupled to an Apollo capsule for a display of the 1975 joint space venture. Also, of course, a model of Sputnik, the satellite that helped to goose America into space...