A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 16, 1957

WHILE last week's Vanguard explosion was blamed officially on "loss of thrust," there was no lack of thrusts at the U.S. Newspapers from Mexico City to Moscow, and at home as well, dubbed the dud a stallnik, latenik, flopnik, pfftnik, goofnik. For other press comment, ranging from derision to bitter disappointment, see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES.

IT was General Dwight Eisenhower more than any other individual free-world leader who forged and welded the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Next week in Paris, its framework subject to the greatest strains, internal and external, in its history, its heads of government will meet,...

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