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...pour a little soothing oil on American heartburn over the failure of your Sputnik? Look around the free world and take stock of what your first Sputnik-called by some Marshall Aid-did for mankind, and take heart. A nation capable of such deeds can laugh off its first failures...
...post-Sputnik era many a Congressman had raised his voice asking for the Administration to show "leadership." The Administration showed it by attacking the nation's $5 billion-a-year farm giveaway in an election year-when the money is sorely needed for defense. Judging by its first spokesmen, Congress was in no mood to deal with the issue...
...doubt, said he, the Communist rulers gained a success in Sputnik. "But Sputnik, mocking the American people with its beep-beep, may go down in history as Mr. Khrushchev's boomerang. A wave of mortification, anger and fresh determination swept the country. Out of that mood is coming a more serious appraisal of the struggle...
...Taira charged that "the Americans are trampling on the will of the people." As for Left-Winger Kaneshi, he called on the electorate to "avenge Senaga." Much of the time, Kaneshi sat smirking nervously at the back of his own platform while ex-Mayor Senaga hailed him as "a Sputnik," denounced "American oppression," and gleefully boasted that "Russia now has a weapon which can blow up the White House in Washington...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 19--Moon-watch scientists tonight reported an official sighting of Sputnik II, Russia's dog-satellite, as it sped around the earth some 400 miles in space...