Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yemenite Jews ate meat only about once a week. But they drank oceans of tea and coffee, and heady, 100-proof arrack distilled from citrus fruits and sugar-beet molasses...
...Palmer plays it for more than mere money; he plays it out of love. His ambition is to cement his place in golfing history by building up a record of victories in the Masters, the U.S. Open, the British Open and the P.G.A. Fellow professionals need no such dramatic proof of Palmer's prowess: they already rank him as golfing's best...
...about licensing an oral vaccine. Main concern is that the weakened viruses sometimes revert, in the human stomach and intestines, to a form that is more likely to cause paralysis in test monkeys. Baylor University's Dr. Joseph L. Melnick settled a years-long argument with conclusive proof of this. But nobody knows whether the monkey test (involving direct injection into the brain or spinal fluid) is a good indicator of what might happen...
...city in which explosive change is routine, Los Angeles has always counted on one unchanging and unchangeable institution: the wealthy, well-edited Los Angeles Times (circ. 526,800). Last week came proof that even the Times can change. Handsome, grey-haired Norman Chandler, 60, publisher for the last 19 years, announced that he is relinquishing that post to his only son Otis...
...Proof Positive. In Geneva, World Health Organization officials sent out invitations to a showing of the movie Alcohol and Alcoholism, assured guests that "cocktails will be served...