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...here we have our Sputnik No secret: the newborn planet Is modest about its size, But this symbol of intellect and light Is made by us, and not by the God Of the Old Testament...
...Looks quiet," said White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty to his associate, Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton, before leaving on a ten-day vacation. "Let's keep it that way." Hagerty had barely arrived in Puerto Rico when Sputnik 11 shattered the lull at the White House. Annie Wheaton's first week under the gun as acting press secretary was Ike's busiest in months...
...newspapers, whose feature editors sometimes treat the dog story as the newsman's best friend, got their teeth last week into the shaggiest saga of all time. Cracked a city-room wit as Sputnik 11 hove into the headlines: "It's the first time a dog story made eight-column streamers on every front page in the country." The press gave full coverage to the challenging aspects of the Russian feat. But, in a spree of Muttnik jokes and doggerel, wry puns and photographic gags, it also served up laughter to a nation big enough to chuckle over...
...sputpup was a female named Laika after its breed. But, though they use the word regularly in covering dog shows, newspapers and v:ire services were not so indelicate as to call it a bitch. City-room funsters showed less restraint in gags about the contents of the next Sputnik (a fireplug) or a quote from Laika's earthbound boy friend ("Someone up there loves me"). After perpetrating such lines as "The chow jumped over the moon" and "How the mighty Laika rose," the Chicago American noted: 'The Russian sputpup isn't the first...
...satellite watching improved last week-with two satellites to watch and more time to practice. The Smithsonian's observatory at Cambridge reported that it has pinpointed both Soviet satellites accurately enough to backtrack by computer and find the hour when they were launched. Sputnik 1, the observatory said, took to space on Oct. 4 at 8 a.m. E.S.T. Sputnik 111 was launched in the middle of the afternoon on Nov. 1. Its orbit is more elliptical, rising higher and sinking lower, than the orbit of Sputnik...