Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly touted "secret," relayed via Humphrey, was that Russia has built an ICBM with a 14,000-km. (8,700 miles) range, but has yet to test it. Ike was not surprised at the range, since such a distance is within theoretical reach of the rocket engines that powered Sputnik. The President was more interested in Humphrey's report on Khrushchev's general manner, physical appearance, tone of voice. Democrat Humphrey left the President's office to savor the experience of occupying the center of the world's biggest Republican news stage as White House correspondents...
...Hubert Humphrey, he could only enjoy it all-without being actually carried away. "Last year at this time," crowed a Humphrey aide, "it was Sputnik was in orbit. This year it is Humphrey in orbit." Said shrewd Presidential Hopeful Humphrey, overhearing the remark: "It will be O.K. if I stay in orbit longer than Sputnik...
Prodded by the Soviet Union's dramatic Sputnik success last year, the Eisenhower Administration decided to push a program of appointing top U.S. scientists to serve as science attachés in major U.S. embassies overseas. Last week the program finally got into orbit. Named by the State Department as the U.S.'s first batch of science attachés were seven scientists, each eminent in his field and each fluent in the language of the country where he will serve his two-year term. The seven and their posts...
...Explorer has fallen silent, and the current series of U.S.-made satellites is spinning to its end. Last week Roy W. Johnson, director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), announced plans for the U.S.'s next series. The new "Discoverer" series will include Sputnik-sized reconnaissance satellites revolving in north-south orbits that cross both poles...
Coming Fast. The rejoicing meant as much to the nation as to Atlas' dogged crews. Despite the Sputnik furor and the panicky cries that the U.S. was lagging behind the Russians in missilery, Convair and the Air Force stuck stubbornly to a schedule that was programed for maximum effort long before Sputnik. Atlas will need many more tests-and particularly refinement of its guidance system-before it is a real operational weapon. But if, as they claim, the Russians have already fired an ICBM (3,500 miles, according to U.S. intelligence guesses), the successful full-range Atlas flight makes...