The "Say-It-Isn't-So!" Syndrome.

Focuses on the reaction of the U.S. to the initiative taken by the Soviet Union to send Lunik around the moon. Doubt expressed by the Americans on the photographs taken by the space craft on the surface of the moon and released by the Russians; Article "Popular Photography," written by Lloyd Mallan charging that the Russians had faked the photographs of the lunar surface; Skepticism shown by Mallan on the ability of the Russians to send space probes to the moon; Publication of the data about the moon venture by the Russian government; Details of the methods used by the Russian scientists in taking the pictures of the moon.