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Brief summaries of each decade inform the reader of newsworthy events: the Titanic sank and the tango began, nylon appeared in stockings and then disappeared into parachutes; dry ice and penicillin were invented; Sputnik went into orbit...
Soon after Sputnik, Dr. Winitz began working on an amino-acid diet with Dr. Wallace L. Chan, a NASA consultant on synthetic foods. Now, with a $400,000 grant from NASA, they are continuing their research at Vacaville. There, each week, they make 30 gallons of their Human Diet...
...national prestige has been the chief motive for U.S. participation in this space track meet. In the eyes of many, beating the Soviet Union to the moon would erase its Sputnik triumph of 1957. It would seem, however, that the U.S. could gain more prestige through significant and valuable scientific breakthroughs than through the moon race. Certainly it can gain prestige in ways less financially and scientifically wasteful...
Educators, who are rarely given to bursts of enthusiasm over anything, may one day get down on their hands and knees to thank the powers that be for Sputnik. The launching by the Soviet Union in 1957 of the first earth satellite stirred this country into a furious educational debate, the repercussions of which are still being felt. More tangibly, the launching led to the National Defense Education Act the following year...
...billion to put two U.S. astronauts on the moon by 1970, the present target date of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA's budget has already rocketed from $117 million in 1958 to $3.7 billion this year. With the costs mounting inexorably, and with memories of Sputnik I receding, some Americans have come to take a less moonstruck look at NASA and the space race...