Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Shadow of John Dewey" is the most concise and comprehensive statement on U.S. education since Sputnik. Could it not be that a hierarchy of educationists has distorted and stretched Dewey's shadow to a shape and length he himself never intended...
While the U.S. satellites and the Red Sputnik whirled in space, an argument ricocheted through the U.S. defense and scientific communities. Who ought to command the U.S.'s space offensive-civilians or the military? Last week, in a special message to Congress, the President gave his answer. Its gist: civilians...
...teachers. But curriculum deficiencies are a pressing concern for a majority of the principals. They were asked: "Have you made, or are you planning to make, any changes in the requirements or the curriculum of your high school in line with suggestions which have been made since Sputnik?" Their answers...
...quintupling the press run of its first-and may order another 30,000. Publisher Wayne (American Aviation) Parrish's monthly Missiles and Rockets (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956) is put out for the trade, but its circulation has grown by almost a third (to 27,700) since the first Sputnik, and its ads are up 75% over last year despite the slump. Though aviation magazines are expanding coverage of the space age, they are losing advertisers to the specialized newcomers. McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week was down 112 pages of ads in January from a year...
...printer's error boosted the price on the cover to 60?. Then after the first printing of 5,000 copies had sold out early last fall (mainly in Huntsville), they printed 15,000 more barely got them on the stands in twelve cities when the Russians launched Sputnik I on Oct. 4. Within days, 95% of the copies were gone. Says Editor Isbell: "The Russians put us in business...