Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commendable and well-kept secrecy, the U.S. fired-and guided-an 85-ft., 8,600-lb. Atlas intercontinental missile into orbit. Admittedly, the shot of the heavy bird, with its voice-receiving and transmitting equipment, was a calculated counter-symbol to the Russian Sputniks (see Space). But in the sweep of time it symbolized far more: the U.S. march into space, programed long before Sputnik stirred up the free world's self-doubters, was headed into a period of historic achievements that had important meanings both in space and on earth...
...months since Sputnik I, Russia's Khrushchev had repeatedly rattled his rockets in an attempt to neutralize and intimidate Western nations. A series of successful U.S. missile shots was a comforting background in Paris last week, as the NATO Council of Foreign Ministers rejected the Kremlin's plan to make West Berlin a demilitarized "free city.'' The NATO ministers gave short shrift to neutralist disengagement schemes, held fast to the basic point that Germany must be reunited by free elections, with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Said NATO's commanding general...
...project, called SCORE (for Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment), was begun last June in Convair's beige-carpeted board room in San Diego. Gathered there were Convair officials and the Pentagon's Roy Johnson, chief of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency. Subject of the discussion: Sputnik III. Said Johnson: "We've got to get something big up." Replied J. Raymon Dempsey, manager of Convair's Astronautics Division (since named a vice president): "Well, we could put the whole Atlas in orbit...
...fashionable. Typically, he orates: "We are like penguins wrapped in blubber. We have wrapped ourselves in such a layer of luxury we are virtually impervious to what goes on in the world around us. We may be unable to wake up in time to meet the crisis that Sputnik graphically posed...
...Since Sputnik III was launched seven months ago, Stanford has picked up its orbiting ghost during three periods of several weeks each. The ghost could be heard for three to five minutes (v. five to 15 minutes for the Sputnik itself...