Letters, Jan. 27, 1958

Earth & Space Sir:

May I pour a little soothing oil on American heartburn over the failure of your Sputnik? Look around the free world and take stock of what your first Sputnik—called by some Marshall Aid—did for mankind, and take heart. A nation capable of such deeds can laugh off its first failures.

ERNEST J. BOURNE London

Sir: Let us not worry about our delayed satellite. Who Sputniks last, Sputniks best.

SIG. GROSSMANN Rio de Janeiro

Sir:

Here is one American's judgment of this country's "decision" to talk disarmament with Russia:...

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