VANGUARD'S AFTERMATH: JEERS AND TEARS

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We have had to absorb a considerable amount of disillusionment in the past two months. All right, let's take it and get whatever benefits may derive from it, but let us not develop a taste for it.

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES:

Our country has a reputation for being a late starter in wars—military, economic or propaganda—but a quick recoverer.

DENVER POST:

The American people are nervous, skeptical and annoyed about our conduct of scientific research and development. The people are not frightened. But they are getting pretty sore.

DETROIT TIMES :

We should have kept mum until success had been attained.

LOS ANGELES TIMES:

The thing to do next is get some more hardware onto that Florida launching pad as quickly as possible, load it and fire it.

RADIO Moscow:

There is no doubt that American scientists will, in the end, succeed in launching earth satellites.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR:

The bombast-pricking headlines and jokes made by America's free world friends point right to the heart of the matter. The Viennese designation of "spätnik" (meaning "latenik") and the Mexican reference to "stallnik" are both gibes at the overblown way in which public relations men and the American press built a giant anticlimax by trying to create a climax where it was not normal for a climax to come—in the midst of a delicate experiment.