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...uneasy autumn of 1957, the U.S. is reluctantly grasping the full, unwelcome meaning of Russian-made metal objects orbiting around the earth. Sputnik I and Sputnik II have painfully fractured the U.S.'s contented expectation that, behind an impenetrable shield of technological superiority, the nation could go on with the pursuit of happiness and business as usual this year and the next and the next. Now the U.S. has to live with the uncomfortable realization that Russia is racing with clenched-teeth determination to surpass the West in science-and is rapidly narrowing the West's shielding lead...
...sophisticated was the approach of Communist bosses to science-particularly since World War 11-that they freed scientists from the Communist system itself, set them up in a never-never land of unlimited funds, limousines, dachas, and even-in the last few years-freedom of thought. The Sputnik I that came as a shocking surprise to the U.S. public was no surprise to U.S. scientists. From keeping an eye on Russian research through scientific journals, from reports of colleagues who visited Russia, and from meeting their Russian opposite numbers at international scientific gatherings, U.S. scientists were well aware that Russia...
Most sensible Democrats were quick to point out that it was too early to be hitching a bandwagon to this soaring satellite. But as sure as Sputnik was the fact that Kennedy is riding high...
...this pie was still in the sky, so were two Sputniks. For days past, Karandash, a famed Russian clown, had been convulsing Moscow audiences by exploding a small balloon, then explaining, "That is the American Sputnik." Never one to pass up a surefire gag, Nikita, too, harped on U.S. discomfiture: "The U.S. announced that it was preparing to launch an earth satellite to be called the Vanguard. Not anything else. Just Vanguard . . . But it was the Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia...
...Interviewed in Cambridge, England, where he now "works for a friend" on nonsecret scientific matters, one former prisoner-though no child murderer-expressed eagerness to follow Lady Munning's suggestion. "I would gladly have gone up in the Sputnik," said Dr. Alan Nunn May, the West's first convicted atom spy. "I would have done it for science...