Word: sputniked
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...sooner did Sputnik I go into its orbit last Oct. 4 than Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, orbiting in his own familiar sphere, ordered a full-fledged tracking of U.S. preparedness. Last week, gaveling his seven-member Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee to order for the first three days of the hearing, Texan Johnson tersely outlined the Senate's objectives. Said he: "With the launching of Sputnik I and II and with the information at hand of Russia's strength, our supremacy and even our equality has been challenged. Our goal is to find out what is to be done...
...occur between dedicated military people." Dr. John P. Hagen, director of Project Vanguard, insisted that if the U.S. had treated its own satellite as less of a bauble, had assigned it higher priority, "I think that we probably would have come very close to the same time [as Sputnik I], if not ahead of them...
...over Europe, the emotional impact of Ike's cerebral occlusion was shattering. Eisenhower, hope of the West, the man to whom all were looking to meet and match the Sputnik challenge, had been struck down. In Paris the NATO Council, acting on premature reports that there was no possibility of Ike's attendance at the Prime Ministers' meeting expressed'"satisfaction" that "Vice President Nixon would lead the U.S. delegation," and voted to go ahead with the conference as planned. But privately, European members of the Council admitted that they had done so partly to give...
...above all, Western Europe hoped that the summit meeting could counter and reverse the decline in Western prestige since Sputnik. In this time of anxiety, the West looked to the U.S. to provide a new sense of strength and resolution. The NATO allies would rather have it from Ike. whom they hold in admiration and familiar affection. But if Ike is incapacitated, they are quite ready to accept it from Nixon. The summit meeting would fail only if the U.S., whoever spoke for it, failed to provide that leadership...
...members. The consistory seems more imminent because of 1) the death of the Vatican librarian, Giovanni Cardinal Mercati (TIME, Sept. 2), a scholar who understood Aramaic and the intricacies of racing cars and rocketry, which left the Vatican without a high-ranking scientific adviser during the rush of Sputnik-sparked technological developments; 2) the serious illness (since October) of Nicola Cardinal Canali, which reduced to one the number of active cardinal deacons.* Only ailing, half-blind Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, 67, now remains to stand in the deacons' place beside the Pope during long ceremonies...