Out of This World

A nation's jokes can often express the more somber interests of an era, and last week, even as United Nations diplomats grimly pondered the problems of the space age, the U.S. laughed at a coast-to-coast rash of space-age jokes. In their most popular form, the space gags follow the style of a partisan political yak that gained wide currency months ago: a Martian landed on the Augusta National Golf Course, hopped up to Dwight Eisenhower and demanded: "Take me to your leader." Jumping off from there: Other space gags deal with the confrontation of out-of-this-worldlings and earthly devices:

And who knows but what Charlie had?

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