Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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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...
...Peace, progress and prosperity" has been a continuing-and unassailable-accomplishment as well as a slogan of the Eisenhower Administration. After Russia's Sputnik flashed across the sky, and after the stock market plunged, progress suddenly seemed-in headlines, at least-the sole property of the Russians. Turning to Washington for reassurance, the U.S. saw administrative confusion, sensed a crisis in leadership and demanded action...
...White House, the Pentagon and the remote missile-and rocket-testing areas from Florida to Eniwetok there was a new sense of urgency last week. Across the U.S. most of the post-Sputnik criticism and political backbiting gave way to the closest thing to an identity with national purpose that the U.S. has known since Korea...
...blatantly political charges by the Democratic Advisory Council that he had handled the Little Rock school integration crisis indecisively. He was concerned about the gyrations of the stock market. He was infuriated by White House Adviser (for foreign economic policy) Clarence Randall's description of the Soviet Sputnik as "a silly bauble." Dwight Eisenhower scowled darkly at the humdrum text of a speech on medical education, tb be delivered to the National Fund for Medical Education that night in New York. Growled he to an aide: "Let's go ahead with our idea-right now, tonight...