Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proof Needed. Answers are not easy. Although the First and 14th Amendments guarantee freedom of speech and press, the Supreme Court has cast obscenity outside these rights, just as it does incitement to violence or publication of military secrets. But one trouble is that many cities and states have tried to suppress smut even before it reaches the public. This the court calls "prior restraint," meaning that a state invades freedom of expression if it bans obscenity on such vague grounds as "objectionable" before proving its case in a legal hearing...
...Perception Proof? The bachot, or "bac," is drawn up by 30 eminent French professors, who submit it to the Education Ministry. Then the exam goes to the National Printing Office, where no printer sets more than a single line of type. The printed copies are kept in safes until three days before exam time, when envelopes containing the dreaded test are distributed to regional centers. At the same hour throughout the country, the seals are broken to start the trial that every French youth has worked toward for 16 to 18 years...
...possibly in the city's famed underworld-had cracked the secrecy. For at least a week before the bachot, parents and children happily paid as much as $300 for the three tough questions on the philosophy section of the test, which turned out to be: "Does perception provide proof of the reality of an object? Is it correct to speak of the lessons of the past? Is liberty of judgment compatible with the necessity of truth?" As word spread to 80% of the local students and to Nice, Corsica, Toulon and Paris, the price dropped to $30. Many Frenchmen...
Busy Signal. Police got proof of the fraud only on exam day, but bureaucracy made it impossible to switch to a standby bachot. The decision to change, explained an official of the Marseille test center, could be made only by the exam results to be compared with a student's regular work. Those scoring suspiciously well will get an oral grilling. President Charles de Gaulle was so peeved by the inglorious mess that at a Cabinet meeting he asked his Education Minister: "Alors, Fouchet, and about this bac?" Replied Fouchet, with grumpy high-score logic: "The whole thing would...
...Reichardt picked the Angels. "I felt my best opportunity for advancement was with a young club," he said. "Now the burden of proof is on me." Whereupon he stepped into the batting cage at Chavez Ravine and clouted three balls out of the park-one of them over the 410-ft. sign in center field...