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...Peace, progress and prosperity" has been a continuing-and unassailable-accomplishment as well as a slogan of the Eisenhower Administration. After Russia's Sputnik flashed across the sky, and after the stock market plunged, progress suddenly seemed-in headlines, at least-the sole property of the Russians. Turning to Washington for reassurance, the U.S. saw administrative confusion, sensed a crisis in leadership and demanded action...
...White House, the Pentagon and the remote missile-and rocket-testing areas from Florida to Eniwetok there was a new sense of urgency last week. Across the U.S. most of the post-Sputnik criticism and political backbiting gave way to the closest thing to an identity with national purpose that the U.S. has known since Korea...
...blatantly political charges by the Democratic Advisory Council that he had handled the Little Rock school integration crisis indecisively. He was concerned about the gyrations of the stock market. He was infuriated by White House Adviser (for foreign economic policy) Clarence Randall's description of the Soviet Sputnik as "a silly bauble." Dwight Eisenhower scowled darkly at the humdrum text of a speech on medical education, tb be delivered to the National Fund for Medical Education that night in New York. Growled he to an aide: "Let's go ahead with our idea-right now, tonight...
...weapons had been in design for many months, but the fact that the U.S. was able to talk about them-at a critical time., when the Russians were boasting a post-Sputnik balance of power in the world-was not so much a triumph for the President's policies as for the policies of other top-level Administration officials, including Vice President Richard Nixon. At Administration conferences Nixon has urged 1) that President Eisenhower move sharply to re-emphasize his national leadership, and 2) that the Administration go farther toward explaining the true state of the nation...
Back to Hay-Pitching. That, far from panic, was the nation's mood last week, as reported by TIME correspondents in 33 cities. Sputnik, the Middle East and other events had, as a Chicago lawyer remarked, "punctured the psychological Maginot line." Said Jay Dillingham, president of the Kansas City Stock Yards Co.: "We've been like a farm boy gawking along the midway of a county fair. Now we've got to get back to work pitching hay." Florida's Congressman Dante Fascell reported attending a club meeting in Miami: "After it was over, a bunch...