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...Phoenix, which under an earlier pacifist owner had sailed pre-test voyages into American and Russian A-bomb testing zones in the Pacific, also sailed to North Vietnam in March...
Unfair questions, which manage to slip by the board of experts, are usually spotted in the experimental pre-test, which every question must pass before it is to be included as a bona fide question on an ETS test. Experimental items are often included in the regular college board exams, where the student does not know that the question will not count towards his scores...
...Practice for the Army Tests," contains test questions mostly aimed at preparing you for the Army General Classification Test, but it should also be useful practice for the basic tests given by all branches of service. While most questions asked on such tests are elementary, and some are so mechanical that no preparation is possible, a few hours refresher is "Ratio and Proportion Problems" or "Graph and Chart Analysis" shouldn't hurt the AGCT score of any non-math concentrator. And then there are those exasperating "Cube Counting" and "Cube Turning" problems which some pre-test practice would make slightly...
Gloomily aware of the failure of other young comedians (e.g., Danny Thomas, Jack Paar, Henry Morgan, Danny Kaye) who have tried to buck radio's Old Guard, Shriner feels that he has a few advantages: he can pre-test his radio gags from the stage of Inside U.S.A., and his program has been sponsored from the start, which allows him to hire a topflight script "collaborator." Though he has a complicated broadcast and rebroadcast time schedule (CBS, 5:45 p.m. E.S.T., from New York), Shriner also takes heart from the fact that his Hooperating, which had been a modest...