Description
Original LIFE Magazine — October 21 1957
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published October 21 1957 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: U.S. scientists chart the orbit of Sputnik after the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite.
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s coverage of Sputnik and the opening of the Space Age, including why the Soviet Union launched the first satellite and what the United States planned to do next. Also included are Governor Foster Furcolo’s account of a political campaign and the original news, photography, advertising, science, space exploration, Cold War politics, technology, culture, and features from October 21 1957.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Birthday gifts, anniversary keepsakes, Sputnik collectors, space-history enthusiasts, Cold War history readers, science and technology collectors, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone who wants a meaningful gift from a specific date or year.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 19 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Russia’s Satellite, a Dazzling New Sight in the Heavens?the Feat that Shook the Earth
Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Voices of Conscience Heard in Little Rock
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: ‘Mr. Sam’ Dedicates His Own Memorial
Pg… 42 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 57 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Hostesses to Queen: Tables are Arrayed for Royal Welcome
Pg… 35 EDITORIAL: Common Sense and Sputnik: Let it Remind Us that Goals are Reached by Hard Effort?and of Our Goals
Pg… 82 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Growing Pains of a Big Country: Ambitious Brazil has Great Riches, Fine Prospects?and Problems. Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
Pg… 118 ARTICLE: In an Excerpt from a Governor’s Comic Novel, a Tavern Free–For–All and a Last–Minute Courtroom Turnabout Propel a Hapless Candidate to Victory. By Foster Furcolo, Governor of Massachusetts. Drawings for LIFE by George Price
Pg… 49 ARCHITECTURE: Symposium in Symbolic Setting: Fine New Building Meets Challenge of City Crisis
Pg… 62 ANIMALS: A Sheep’s Half Nelson
Pg… 67 MOVIES: Snare for an Outlaw in Movie, Across the Bridge
Pg… 73 CLOSE–UP: Defender for the Unpopular: Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams
Pg… 97 SPORTS: Joyous End for Beer City’s Baseball Bender as Braves Win Series
Pg… 106 FASHION: Bogus Bearskin, a New Man–Made Fur
Pg… 111 EDUCATION: Sound of Girlish Voices Strikes a New Note at Muhlenberg. Photographed for LIFE by Bruce Davidson
Pg… 137 PARTY: A Daughter–In–Law for Adenauer
Pg… 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Shadow of the Future
Pg… 140 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Hare that Stands on End
