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...profound change occurred in the post-Sputnik era, said Davis. "Dr. Killian and his group of scientific advisers managed to defeat the Strauss-Teller position within the Administration, and this led to the present arms control conferences...
...advantages of man's mastery of space, Huxley has this to say: "All our exuberant post-Sputnik talk is irrelevant and even nonsensical. So far as the masses of mankind are concerned, the coming time will not be the Space Age; it will be the Age of Over-population." In a parody of the old song, Huxley asks...
...minutes. Soon after that Comet took off, another (five paying passengers, 23 freeloaders), charged off Idlewild's runway, made London in a snappy six hours, twelve minutes, some five hours less than normal piston flight. Thus, on the anniversary of Russia's Sputnik, began a new era in the 20th century's fast-changing history. The commercial jet age was a dramatic reality...
...Sputnik Horrors. As his sculpture moved from the flat plane into the round, Arp found himself creating biomorphic objects that ambiguously suggested a cross between scrambled genes and objects in nature. As a practicing poet, Arp gave them titles aimed to launch the spectator on a whirl of free associations...
...Venice grand prize went to an Italian cartoon commercial, "All Over the World"-a wild melange of cloaked Parisian policemen, covered wagons in the American West, a sexy Brazilian samba dancer, remorseless Russians firing a dog-filled Sputnik into space, and finally Italy, emerging in a burst of sun and sea. Sponsor: "Stock" Brandy...