Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Engine Charlie quipped his way through his term as top man in U.S. defense, the Russians launched sputnik ; interservice rivalry flared worse than ever; recent cut backs in military spending have demoralized the armed forces. Now, heaven help us, we have a soapmaker in charge...
...Sputnik should be an incentive for the United States to devote more attention to education, said President Pusey, at a dinner in New York Thursday night...
Recent Russian scientific achievements, culminating in the firing of Sputnik, have strengthened the Soviet Union's position in regard to the satellite nations, and the uncommitted areas of the world, she said. Lack of knowledge and of understanding of our problems, inter-service rivalries, and a "McCarthyist" idea that the secrets of the A-bomb could be "locked up" has lost this race for America, she charged. She also criticized our emphasis on "lethal weapons...
...success of Sputnik has given rise to a tremendous number of proposals, indictments, and disclaimers--and a great deal of confusion. J. Allen Hynek, Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, is one of the few responsible leaders to realize the satellite's implications and make a constructive suggestion. He proposes that a Secretary of Science be added to the Cabinet...
...nobody-not even Gimbels-could quite match the Sputnik sense of Manhattan's Macy's. where space sales were up 1.000% within a week. Rushed to the store by cargo planes and taxicabs, some 10,000 satellite balloons, ray guns and missile trackers were crammed into a new display area manned by perspiring salesmen in space suits and helmets. Pervading all was a real-live recording of the Red Sputnik's throaty beeps...