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...monster reactor yielding 100,000 kw. of electricity. Five more like it under construction will make the plant the world's biggest. General consensus was that the Russians, put deep in the shade by the U.S. technical exhibit, made the late announcement-by-inovie as a Sputnik-like surprise...
...should also attract a host of auditors on opening day, even from among those who have long transcended the elementary stuff. Clambering up the Gropius-bleachers in Burr A gives one a chance to view both Sputnik-spotting Dr. Hynek, and cigarette-dangling Payne-Gaposchkin, Harvard's first woman professor, world authority on variable stars, and beloved eccentric of the first order...
Defense Posture. Since Sputnik, the U.S. has placed four satellites of its own in space, sent two atom-powered submarines under the North Pole-unmistakable evidence that the nation is technologically equipped to counter the pressures and progress of Soviet Russia...
...four real and working fusion devices, which flash like lightning when crew-cut young scientists throw the switches. The U.S. exhibit cost $4,500,000. No other nation has anything comparable. The only item in the Soviet exhibit to draw much popular interest is nonnuclear: a gleaming model of Sputnik...
...Russian lunar probe has less priority than other undisclosed projects, said the U.S.S.R.'s top space spokesman, Leonid Sedov. He said no more. Other astronauts concluded from what he said that he meant Russia will try to orbit a man in a Sputnik by spring. An American will achieve the same stunt within five years, said the U.S. Army's Wernher von Braun, "and most likely sooner...