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Ike Shrugged Off Sputnik | October 1997, Vol 48, No 6
by Stephen Bates
Sixty years ago this month, the Soviet Union orbited a “man-made moon” whose derisive chirp persuaded Americans that they’d already lost a race that had barely begun.

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