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...week that could change the whole future of mankind, there was still another view, and it seemed all too familiar: Plus fa change, plus c'est la méme chose. In 1957, when Russia orbited Sputnik I, the U.S. displayed its rocket lag for all the world to see. Last week's Soviet exploit demonstrated that the lag has scarcely lessened. Official U.S. reaction to Gaga's feat was at least as nonchalant as the reaction to the first Sputnik. President Kennedy congratulated the Russians, but at his press conference he indicated that the desalinization...
Further evidence of hindering influences came to light in reports to the President of James R. Killian of M.I.T., who headed a group of scientists called into government service after the first Sputnik was launched in October, 1957. Killian charged that scientific research into methods of arms control had been carried out half-heartedly, and with a feeling that failure was a foregone conclusion...
...launching of Russia's first Sputnik in 1957 marked the beginning of the crying towel stage of development in the field of teaching. Neglected during the first years of this new era because of the government's preoccupation with science, English teachers are now demanding an equal part of the government's favors. In its bid for support, the National Council of Teachers of English has attempted to evaluate the current status of English teaching in its recent book, The National Interest and the Teaching of English. One of the book's primary purposes, according to its authors...
Slower but Surer. Such a take-off can be accomplished in various ways. To judge from their scanty description, the Russians separated a "guided space rocket" from the main body of their sputnik, and pointed it in the correct direction, presumably by discharging small rockets or gas-jets. When it reached the preselected point on its orbit, the main rocket fired, contributing additional push that made the station spiral away from the earth and curve inward toward the sun and the orbit of Venus (see diagram...
Launched on Oct. 4, 1957, Russia's Sputnik 1 triggered a storm of criticism for U.S. education, which was accused of turning out used-car dealers and basketball players instead of scientists. Indeed. Soviet scientific education was even touted as a model that the U.S. should try to follow. Last week that attitude looked pretty silly: few U.S. experts now believe that the Russians are far ahead in science education-and the Soviets themselves have begun to look sourly at their own system...