Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighteen months ago, before squaring off against world illiteracy on a broad scale, U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) decided to try a small-scale test of its methods in Haiti's remote Marbial Valley, where illiteracy was the rule. To the valley six months ago went a team of UNESCO educators to begin the experiment. Last week, Lake Success announced that the project was being suspended. The UNESCO officials, said U.N., had come down with something almost as common in the Marbial Valley as illiteracy: malaria...
Storm in Black & White. Gus Beale's test comes when a Negro pilot, member of a squadron that Washington has created merely to pacify pro-Negro opinion, is beaten up by a white colonel. The affair has nothing to do with racial prejudice, but before the next day is out it has ballooned into a shocking black & white scandal. Angry Negro officers, hitherto amenable to unofficial discriminatory rules, decide that this is the moment to claim their right to membership in the "restricted" officers' club. Knowing the effect this will have on white personnel, Gus Beale orders...
Tackle Jon Jenkins, a somewhat more rugged individual, is credited with being the strongest man ever to go to the Hanover school, at least in the history of their peculiar military-type strength test. Jenkins, besides piling up the highest score on record, also piles up opposing ballcarriers with amazing consistency...
Tripartite Test...
...test consists of naming the parts of a boat, tying knots, and putting a dinghy through some elementary maneuvers. The trio expects to pass by next week, and then they will once more be ready to race the yacht team over a Charles River course...