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...After Sputnik...
Historically, pre-Sputnikly speaking, hopefuls for the nomination to the presidency have been drawn from three principal sources: the legal profession, sundry political assortments, heroic military personages. Now as we enter into the active Sputnik era, with its many scientific ramifications, is it not wisely incumbent that we seek future presidential nominees from the ranks of the scientific professions...
Your Oct. 14 cover showed the U.S. repairman astride a snail; maybe you should have had another cover showing a genuine scientist sleeping next to a hare while a tortoise was in Siberia launching his Sputnik...
...normalcy in which Americans were learning to live with continual crisis (TIME, March 18). One Western banker compared the U.S. to a small boy walking a fence: "After a while he gets so good at it that he quits worrying about falling." Was the boy, in the wake of Sputnik, Russia's missile boasts and another Middle East crisis, still so cocksure about his balance? Last week TIME'S correspondents again plumbed the mood of the nation, found that the normalcy of March had given way to a new sense of urgency. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Rocket...
Several Moscow sources claim that Russia will shoot a new and larger Sputnik into an orbit around the earth to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the Soviet Revolution...