Word: sputnik
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Nevertheless, the effect of Sputnik II helped obscure the real work done during a grinding presidential week of National Security Council and Cabinet meetings, a news conference and innumerable lesser conferences that resulted in major decisions. Items...
...endurable if you have got the faith in America that I have." Rather pensively, Dwight Eisenhower noted: "This is one of those falls where I seem to have a lot of things on my plate, and it is hard to tell which to attack first." Four days later Sputnik II, too, dropped on Ike's plate. The Pittsburgh Press expressed a nation's mood: SHOOT THE MOON...
...billion ceiling; 2) the U.S. will be hard put to hold overall spending this year below the budgeted $72 billion; 3) the burgeoning budget for fiscal 1959, due for presentation to Congress next January, will exceed the Administration's earlier $70 billion forecast. The compelling reasons: Sputnik I and Sputnik...
...there a danger that the spectacle of another Kremlin power struggle would mar the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution? Nikita Khrushchev took care of it by sending a dog soaring into space with a whoosh that drowned out all other noises. With every beep from Sputnik II the world got a stark reminder of Russia's strength. If they could send 1,120.8 Ibs. (53 times the weight of the proposed U.S. satellite) more than 1,000 miles into space, the Soviets certainly had a rocket capable of reaching any point on earth...
...travel around the earth through space, first barked over the Moscow radio on Oct. 27. Dressed in a custom space suit, she had already ridden a short while before that in a rocket, and had suffered no ill effects. This week she made history as the passenger in Sputnik II-also called Muttnik...