VANGUARD'S AFTERMATH: JEERS AND TEARS

ASSOCIATED PRESS teletypes:

FLASH

VANGUARD...

BUST IT

Soviet Army's RED STAR:

Uncle Sam thought of launching a Sputnik into the sky.

He announced it to the whole world, not two days but two years in advance.

The boastful and rich uncle called his Sputnik Vanguard.

The name was beautiful and quite chic,

But it turned out to be pshik.

Los ANGELES HERALD & EXPRESS:

9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-PFFT

Scripps-Haward's ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS:

We are now in a situation where no alibis, however valid, suffice. Of course there was too much publicity; we always talk too much.

LONDON DAILY MIRROR:

OH DEAR!!!

LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL:

A shot may be heard around the world but there are times when a dud is even louder.

WARSAW ZOLNIERZ WOLNOSCI:

Who else could manage to spend millions of dollars gathering correspondents from the whole world only to show them wonderful fireworks?

DES MOINES REGISTER:

Soviet newspapers did not tell the world about any Sputnik misfires that may have preceded the first successful launching of an artificial earth satellite. This is the difference between an open government of the people and the closed rule of a police state.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS :

How about some relentless looking around for possible sabotage?

OTTAWA JOURNAL:

The rocket is said by the experts not to have got off the ground because of a "loss of thrust." It is an arresting phrase. Loss of thrust is what the Western democracies have been suffering from.

West Germany's WESTFALISCHE RUNDSCHAU:

A comedy.

Rome's Communist L'UNITA:

A VERY GRAVE DEFEAT FOR THE AMERICAN TECHNIQUE AND INDUSTRY

NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE :

The people in Washington should damn well keep quiet until they have a grapefruit or at least something orbiting around up there.

PORTLAND OREGONIAN:

Our goal is world leadership in the new science of rocketry; there is no point in wasting time and energy in trying to fix the blame.

WACO (TEXAS) NEWS-TRIBUNE:

The inscription for Friday's pfft-nik might be "Washington slipped here."

LONDON DAILY HERALD:

OH, WHAT A FLOPNIK!

Scripps-Howard's SAN FRANCISCO NEWS:

COLD WAR PEARL HARBOR

OREGON JOURNAL:

It has set off a chain reaction of snickers around the world.

London's SUNDAY DISPATCH:

This is no laughing matter.

PARIS-JOURNAL:

It seems there is a worm in the grapefruit.

Scripps-Howard's WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS :

SAMNIK IS KAPUTNIK

LOS ANGELES MIRROR NEWS :

You can point your finger in a dozen directions, toward both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, and find plenty of people who should have acted smarter on our missile programs.

Rome's Christian-Democratic IL POPOLO:

The Americans do not fear the risk of a momentary failure, because they are conscious of their strength and stubbornness through which they will get a success tomorrow in the same place where they failed today.

CHICAGO AMERICAN:

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 "spaetnik" (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.

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