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Cuckoonik. In Brussels, at the World's Fair, Milwaukean Albert O. Trostel Jr. wondered what made the beep in the souvenir Sputnik he bought in the Russian Pavilion, pried it open, found the words Made in Switzerland...
...emphasis on education that followed the launching of the first Soviet Sputnik last year has been reduced to a whisper on Capitol Hill. As Congress began driving for adjournment last week, two National Defense Education Act bills were stuck tight in committee in both the House and.Senate...
Because the Sputnik-inspired sense of urgency has waned, the fair weather for the school bills has now turned into dead calm. There were indications last week that Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson has erased the Senate bill from his "must" list. Odds for what seemed so likely in the heat of January seemed no better than even in the coolness of August...
Died. Burton Holmes, 88, lecturer, globetrotter, film maker, autobiographer (The World Is Mine), who in 1904 coined the word travelogue; in Hollywood. Son of a Chicago grain broker, Holmes became a world traveler in his teens, spent 55 summers abroad, circled Sputnik-like around the world, gave more than 8,000 film-illustrated lectures, formed an accurate picture of the world for millions of Americans in the leisurely years before radio and the airliner. "I am not an explorer," said Holmes. "The South Pole belongs to Byrd and Amundsen, and they can have it." He filled his Manhattan apartment with...
...executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories: "We embark, with every hope, on what can well be a historic mission-to lay the essential technical basis for the important decisions which lie ahead." To the Western scientists' surprise, Chief Soviet Delegate Yevgeny K. Fedorov, identified as a Soviet Sputnik specialist, spoke in the same vein. "It is not for us to decide the cessation of tests," he said. "This is up to the governments...