Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheap, efficient nuclear power plants to help supply the world's growing need for electricity? After years of what Chairman Lewis L. Strauss considers "impressive progress," the Atomic Energy Commission is beset on all sides-especially by U.S. businessmen who fear, as one said, that "just as little Sputnik has been worth billions to Russia, so we will fail to earn billions if we allow ourselves to slide into a secondary position." For how far and how fast the U.S. is traveling along the road to commercial nuclear power, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Atomic Power...
Just 119 days after the Russians sent Sputnik I into the skies, tearing a wound in U.S. pride and prestige, the Army's Explorer thundered off the launching pad at Cape Canaveral last week, a symbol of a new kind of U.S. strength. "The U.S.," said President Dwight Eisenhower, "has successfully placed a scientific earth satellite around the earth...
...days between Sputnik I and Explorer were as important to the U.S. as perhaps any similar peacetime span in its history. To a few querulous quidnuncs they were a time for crying out, for attributing to Russian technology a gigantic leap in military power, for downrating beyond reason the present-day U.S. ability to keep the peace through unequaled sea and air strength. On an Administration all too satisfied with things as they are, Sputnik forced a review of policies and the uncomfortable discovery that the major shortcomings lay in top-level decision-making and policy-planning. To diplomats...
...Kraus is not grieving for Sputnik I; he is waiting for the breakup of dog-carrying Sputnik II. He tracked it over Ohio early last week, but recently it has been crossing the campus during daytime and early evening hours, when the Kraus detection system does not work. Soon he will start watching again for its disintegration, dead...
...makers of Sputnik are preparing another aerial challenge to the West: the world's biggest commercial air fleet. By pumping cash and talent into a crash drive to improve Soviet Russia's 1,000-plane Aeroflot, Nikita Khrushchev hopes to make it another impressive display of the achievements of Soviet technology. Says the U.S. Air Transport Association's President Stuart Tipton: "Aeroflot is visibly preparing to challenge the supremacy of Western carriers. An effective Russian civil airline will facilitate Russia's economic penetration elsewhere, serve as a vehicle for political influence and act as an effective...