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Fred L. Whipple, director of the observatory, said that a joint study of Sputnik by Smithsonian and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory revealed that the air at an altitude of 140 miles is "five times denser" than previous American rocket studies had shown...
...Institute also released information regarding the death of Alpha I, the first Sputnik's rocket, which should come to earth over the weekend. Dr. Armand Spitz of the Smithsonian staff stated that the "actual death of Alpha should be a spectacular event, a bright flashing streak visible for hundreds of miles...
Shortly after Sputnik I went up, a survey of first-and second-year college students in the Mid-west revealed that 10 per cent of them were not aware that Russia had launched a satellite...
...Moscow press conference, the Russian space scientists cautiously discussed future plans and projects. They would not predict when the next Sputnik would be launched. Several more dogs will be shot into space, said Pokrovsky, before risking a live human...
Montini and his helpers concentrated on Milan's 600,000 office, shop and factory workers. He whirled through the Rinascente department store, the stock exchange, three banks. To Sputnik-struck hearers, he praised Russia's technical success, then won a thunder of applause with a blow for the Lord ("Beyond scientific reality there is a divine reality"). Everywhere Montini pleaded: "Come to our mission and hear us.' What are we talking about? The usual things? Yes, but do you really know them? The same old story? Yes, but better say the eternal story. Useless matters? No, useful...