Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such long-range terms, 1958 could be reckoned a year of limited success. Still shocked at year's beginning by Sputnik, the U.S. strengthened its steady recognition that crisis is the cold-war staple that must be lived with and lived up to. The 1958 record looked even better because of Communism's failure to keep up its Sputnik momentum. And while the U.S. failed to define the grand plan-despite the stabs made by President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State Dulles, Dean Acheson, Adlai Stevenson, et al.-this failure was mitigated by the fact that...
...Needed Lift. At year's end the U.S. had many more reasons for hope and confidence than at year's beginning under Sputnik's beep-beep. The U.S. was solid on holding Berlin, unifying Germany by free elections, strengthening NATO, defending Formosa and Quemoy, adding to deterrent power, pressing and pressing again the need for more trade and aid. The strong foundation: the health of the U.S. economy and way of life as evidenced in 1958 by recovery from recession at home (confounding a basic Marxist proposition) and by the popularity overseas of U.S. staples that ranged...
...established leaders or governments emerged from this year of shattered patterns with enhanced prestige. Nikita Khrushchev, 1957's Man of the Year, had commanded the scientific resources to produce a Sputnik, but for all his promises and boasts, he could not solve or begin to solve his country's continuing agricultural crisis. In Red China, faced with his own agricultural crisis, Mao Tsetung launched 1958's most audacious political act, ordering his 650 million subjects into human anthills called "people's communes." But at year's end he was compelled to retreat, not because of popular resentment (which...
...attend functions he will be failure to attend functions he will be unable to participate in Varsity games. Kissinger returns from Cuba to become Harvard's defense coach. The Glenn L. Martin Co. announces the successful launching of a seven-pound Vanguard satellite which goes into orbit around Sputnik...
...Sputnik Rivals. The Atlas, with its nearly 4½ tons, was widely hailed as the heaviest object to be put in orbit, but the Russians were quick to put in a counterclaim. Leonid Sedov, often an official spokesman for Soviet missilemen, declared that each of the three Soviet carrier rockets that orbited the earth weighed considerably more. These weights are not known accurately outside Russia, since the Russians maintain that only the instrument payload is important. The payload of the dog-carrying Sputnik II (instruments, dog, transmitter, etc.) weighed 1,120 lbs., v. the Atlas' 200 plus. Sputnik...