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...commentators, who failed to offer up precise technical information just when it was desperately needed. Donna de Varona ignored fascinating aspects of the women's swimming, using her time, instead, to lobby for U.S. Government-supported athletic programs. It was as if the East Germans had launched a Sputnik rather than Kornelia Ender. Gymnast Commentator Cathy Rigby Mason upheld the standards of Olympic amateurism, trilling things like "Look at that amplitude," without defining it. But other "expert" commentators came through admirably. Ken Sitzberger clearly distinguished the great dives from the merely good ones; Bill Russell delivered intelligent and humane...
...science office operated for a short period of time during World War II and was revived by President Eisenhower in 1957 after the Russians launched Sputnik I. During this period, George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, headed the science office as special advisor to the president...
From 1959-61 Kistiakowsky was President Eisenhower's Special Assistant for Science, a post created to restore American scientific and technological leadership after the Soviet success with Sputnik I. He severed all ties with the Defense Department in 1968 after being "double-crossed about Vietnam," he said...
Some of the U.S. news media, including TIME magazine, have long cultivated distorted ideas about the Soviet Union. No wonder that many Americans have lots of "surprises" when the American press cannot conceal the most eloquent Soviet achievements (as was the case, for instance, when the first Soviet Sputnik was launched), or when they personally acquaint themselves with Soviet reality: the patriotism of the Soviet people, their devotion to the socialist way of life, real equality for all, an inflation-free economy, not a trace of unemployment, free education and medical care, not to mention significant cultural, scientific and technical...
...with a brilliant faculty that outnumbered the student body by 2 to 1 when he retired in 1968. Bronk served as a science adviser to Presidents Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy while he headed the National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962. When the Russians launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957, Bronk sounded a cold war alarm and warned Americans to abandon "shorter work weeks and longer coffee breaks," lest they fall behind the Soviet scientific establishment...