Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran Washington hand, Milton is a member of the President's keystone Advisory Committee on Government Reorganization. Even before Russia's Sputnik spun into the sky last October, Milton and Ike were deep in talks leading toward the Pentagon reorganization that passed into law this summer...
...Sputnik Syndrome is characterized by whirling satellites before the eyes, by alternating periods of deepest gloom and wildest premonitions of impending doom, and by the steadfast conviction that the U.S., helplessly and hopelessly, is falling behind the U.S.S.R. in military technology. Since last Oct. 4, when Russia's Sputnik I spun into the sky, the syndrome has afflicted many who should know better. Proclaimed Columnist Joseph Alsop three weeks ago: "It is now the Eisenhower Administration's policy to permit the Kremlin to gain an overwhelming superiority of nuclear striking power in the next five years." Wrote retired...
Last week came one of the first serious attempts to treat the Sputnik Syndrome. In a Senate speech Massachusetts' Republican Senator Leverett Saltonstall prescribed equal doses of common sense and facts. Far from wallowing in the Soviet technological wake, said he, the U.S. has made historic progress. Items: > The intermediate-range ballistic missile Thor has been put into production, and the intercontinental ballistic missile Atlas has been successfully tested at full power...
...problems. And the historic transpolar voyages of nuclear submarines Nautilus and Skate were sharp reminders -along with three satellites aloft, and a spectacular series of record performances by U.S. aircraft-that the nation is much farther along in technological progress than it seemed in the flap after Sputnik I. ¶ President Eisenhower's decision to send U.S. troops to Lebanon diverted public attention from the Adams-Goldfine affair -and boosted the President's popularity with the voters. The Gallup poll reported last week that 58% of voters questioned said they approve of the way the President is handling...
Cuckoonik. In Brussels, at the World's Fair, Milwaukean Albert O. Trostel Jr. wondered what made the beep in the souvenir Sputnik he bought in the Russian Pavilion, pried it open, found the words Made in Switzerland...