Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to say: let's try to be reasonable," replied Dwight Eisenhower when a reporter asked about antirecession spending. "Let's try to use some common sense and not just get a Sputnik attitude about everything." All last week the President kept a tight grip on the rule of reasonableness, surprised staff and Congress alike by using it to administer a sharp rap across the knuckles here, a threat there, to keep politically fired recession fears from getting out of bounds...
...DuBridge's logical, down-to-earth views in your March 31 Science section will, I hope, enable Sputnik-frenzied Americans to return safely to reality. The several billions required to finance a wasteful moon voyage could be expended more profitably for cancer research...
...Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory yesterday issued an appeal that all those who witnessed the final revolutions of Sputnik II send full reports of their observations to the Observatory. The information is needed because the satellite's behavior in its final stages indicated that further studies of air density at high altitudes should be made...
Russia's rocket Satellite Sputnik II has apparently left its orbit and plunged to earth "blowing up in the sky," according to John White, Director of Public Information at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Institute...
...explained that "big chunks" of the satellite may have fallen into the ocean without disintegrating. There is also the possibility that parts of Sputnik II, for instance the large rocket motor, "may remain in orbit, although as of yet we have no evidence of this...