Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This new triumph of Soviet science (see SCIENCE), following almost exactly two years after Sputnik 1, showed that the U.S.S.R. is still ahead of the U.S. in the critical field of space. The U.S.S.R. fired two moon rockets into space, missed once, hit once; the U.S. fired five moon rockets, missed five times. The Soviet success, as such, gave the Soviet Union's Chairman Khrushchev, on the eve of his U.S. visit, perhaps the greatest prestige blast-off of all time...
...Copenhagen meeting of the International Astronautical Federation, a Russian observer named Leonid Sedov announced that Russia would send up satellites during the International Geophysical Year, 1957-58. Hardly anyone paid attention, but Sputnik I went into orbit on Oct. 4, 1957. Leonid Sedov seemed to have the word...
What the man on the screen teaches is another matter. Teaching is not technology. It is the splendid province of the remarkable man on this week's cover. In the last year he has done more than any other single educator to throw Sputnik's red glare where it belongs-on the curriculum in U.S. public schools. James Bryant Conant is a product (1910) of one of the nation's best secondary schools, Roxbury Latin in Boston. In his 303 he was one of the country's most brilliant young chemists. At 40 he became president...
...curling" depression; Ike failed to rebuke Humphrey, and the year's legislative battles were fought on the Humphrey, not the Eisenhower line. At Little Rock the President had the sad duty of sending federal troops into a state capital. And in those crowded days of September-October 1957, Sputnik I cast a dark shadow across the whole range of U.S. life, from national defense to scientific education. To cap it all off, in November the President suffered a minor stroke, and there were flat suggestions that he resign from office...
Briefly, the President rallied: less than three weeks after his stroke, he flew to Paris to attend a NATO conference. In a strong State of the Union message, he mobilized the nation to meet the challenge of Sputnik. But now the recession was coming closer to home-3,400,000 unemployed in December; 4,500,000 in January; 5,100,000 in February. Wearily, Dwight Eisenhower flew to George Humphrey's Milestone Plantation in Georgia, sat before a fire for the best part of seven days, made no pretense at performing presidential functions (TIME, March...