Matt writes:

On Dec 14, 9:01=A0pm, (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 The newscaster reported on the launch of Laika that a dog=
had
knocked a goat off the front page. =A0So what goat was that?

I'm afraid we missed that item. This is the first mention I'd heard
of the goat.

Hm. All right. Well, so that there's a record of it which
can't be retrieved from Google Groups after the special has expired from
the Tivo:

The clip starts out with the text ``SPECIAL REPORT'', on
black background, with the announcer introducing:

NBC News presents a special report on the Russian
launching of a second Earth satellite.

[ Switch to an ``NBC News'' logo superimposed on Sputnik image. ]

Now to guide this report, here in New York is NBC news
commentator Merril Mueller.

[ Switch to Mueller ]

Good afternoon. A dog knocked a goat right out of the
world's attention today. In a masterpiece of propaganda timing,
the Soviet Union announced it had lunched Sputnik number two,
carrying a live dog. This is reportedly history's first space
traveller.


A quick search of The New York Times archive from October and
early November 1957 doesn't turn up anything featuring the word `goat'
that doesn't seem to be about sports results or travel reports, but I
can't say it'd be surprising if a human-interest or novelty story did
not make it into the paper to start with or into the search database
yet. I had a hard enough time figuring when syndicated _Star Trek_
reruns began airing in New York City.

--
Joseph Nebus
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