Word: teste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranks of the disaffected. Hard-core radicals, such as the Marxist-oriented Students for a Democratic Society (estimated nationwide membership: 6,000), for example, reject all such rational formulations. Negroes know that agitation in the '50s and '60s has prompted more progress than did reasoned argument. Test cases frequently come from broken laws. At many universities in the past two years, it was clear that authorities agreed to reforms after, rather than before, upheavals. Thus it should not be surprising that the alienated young occasionally carry this approach to irrational extremes, ignoring that point on the violence scale...
Except in Southeast Asia and parts of Latin America and West Germany, public fear of Communism has noticeably declined. The change in the public climate offers an opportunity to the reformist parties. If they actually do achieve power through elections, the test for the reformists will be to show that Communism can indeed be the liberating, uplifting force that Marx envisioned and not the tyranny that the Soviets and Chinese made it. To judge from all past evidence, it would be dangerous and foolhardy for any Western voter to bet his liberty in the expectation that this will ever happen...
Rarely in its 101-year history had the Belmont Stakes so thoroughly rated its billing as the "Test of the Champion." Never, in fact, had the classic race hosted the likes of Majestic Prince, the only horse in history to enter the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont undefeated. Going into last week's mile-and-a-half Belmont, the last and longest leg of racing's Triple Crown, the strapping chestnut colt had run and won nine races in a row. Had he won, he would have been the first thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown...
...Ruled 7 to 1 that a literacy test required for voting in Gaston County, N.C., discriminated against blacks because the county had denied them equal educational opportunities. The literacy test, which made ability to read and write segments of the Constitution a qualification for voting, was declared a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Even if the county today offers a better education to young Negroes, the court decided, this "does nothing for their parents. 'Impartial' administration of the literacy test today would serve only to-perpetuate inequities...
...faculty decided to hold a secret mail ballot to determine the fate of Soc Rel 148 and 149. Roger Brown, the department chairman, said the mail ballot plan was the best way to accurately test department sentiment on the radical courses...