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...social realist critics he had tried so hard to please ever since Stalin had scolded him for bourgeois tendencies had shown little patience with the bombastic Leninism of his Eleventh and Twelfth revolutionary symphonies. Mocking rumor had it that in his dacha outside Moscow, Shostakovich would next write a Sputnik symphony, and after that, a Soviet soccer symphony...
After a series of bright, meteorlike objects had shone in Middle Western skies, and cops picked up a 20-lb. piece of hot steel on a quiet Wisconsin street, word got out that a Soviet Sputnik had broken up above the U.S. The steel was rushed to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge. Mass., where a 6-lb. piece was cut off. The rest went to Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico to be tested for radioactivity. Last week, skeptics, who had all along suspected a hoax, got an official disappointment: the steel really came from a Sputnik...
...radiation while it is decaying to stable chromium 54. This is good proof that the object was part of a spacecraft that had orbited for a long time above the atmosphere, which stops most cosmic rays. The piece that fell on Manitowoc, Wis., probably came from the breakup of Sputnik IV, the five-ton Russian satellite that was launched on May 15, 1960 and disintegrated Sept...
...Alamos experts do not want anyone to get the idea that metal which has been exposed to space is dangerously radioactive. The Sputnik chunk, they say is less radioactive than many kinds of granite and wholly harmless. Future satellite frag ments can be safely gathered and sent to the proper authorities for analysis...
...though the U.S. could not yet match the Soviet space spectaculars, the once-starved U.S. space program had made broad progress since that dismaying Friday in October 1957 when Soviet Sputnik I started its beeping, curving course. Dozens of unmanned satellites had been shot aloft to circle the earth, and each one had taught engineers more about rocket techniques, told scientists more about the space environment that wraps the world...