The Sputnik Challenge,New N. L. Spiro Kostof Explores The City

Spiro Kostof Explores The City As A 'Repository Of Cultural Meaning' And An Embodiment Of The Community It Shelters

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It Argues That While Many Single Mothers Left Welfare

People Confronted Hideous Dilemmas

Through An Analysis Of Americans' Voting Behavior And Opinions On A Range Of Economic Issues

The Sputnik Challenge,New N. L. Spiro Kostof Explores The CityOn October 4, 1957, The Soviet Union Launched A 184Pound Metal Ball Called Sputnik Into Orbit Around The Earth, And America Plummeted Into A Panic. Nuclear Weapon Designer Edward Teller Claimed That The United States Had Lost 'A Battle More Important And Greater Than Pearl Harbor,' And Magazine Articles Appeared With Such Headlines As 'Are We Americans Going Soft?' In The White House, President Eisenhower Seemed To Do Nothing, Leading Kennedy In 1960