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...never let up-and then, suddenly, it increased. In August 1957 the Soviets fired their first ICBM, and the oceans narrowed from thousands of miles to 30 minutes. The continental U.S. came within reach of a distant enemy firing from his own shore. On Oct. 4 that same year. Sputnik I soared into orbit. Official Washington, once it got over the shock, set about finding effective ways to respond to the increased Russian capabilities...
...Nobel? Giving him the highest possible marks and allowing for the poet's most destructive enemy-translation-the answer is still no. Quasimodo does not often descend to the banalities of To the New Moon, first published in a Communist paper in celebration of Russia's Sputnik. Mostly he pays in recognizable poet's coin. His world is shrouded in melancholy, in mournful contemplation of man's fate. "Give me sorrow daily bread," and, doubtfully hoping, "perhaps the heart is left us, perhaps the heart . . ." His native Sicily is never far from his thoughts, "warm with...
Quantity & Quality. The U.S. got off to a sluggish start in the race for space. It was the Soviet Union, using a giant rocket developed for military purposes, that opened the space age on Oct. 4, 1957 with Sputnik I. With the doomed dog Laika, the U.S.S.R. put the first animal into orbit. The Soviets scored the first hit on the moon, took the first photograph of the moon's far side. The U.S. still can not match the weight-lifting capacity of Russia's satellite booster...
...obvious. The Navy's Transit I-B is the exciting prototype for a system that will give the U.S. an all-weather navigational accuracy unmatched in human history. Developed by a pair of young Johns Hopkins scientists who studied the radio Doppler effects of Russia's Sputnik I and applied them to practical purposes, the Transit system is scheduled to have four satellites in orbit by 1962. They should be able to give every spot on earth a navigational fix, accurate to the quarter mile, every 90 minutes. Any ship with a whip antenna, a low-cost computer...
...around the earth. But out of that bold assault on old and in correct ideas grew the modern science that has enabled man to outgrow his planet. In the past three years, man's knowledge of his universe has increased more than in the centuries between Galileo and Sputnik I. What tomorrow may hold overwhelms the imagination...