Word: tested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second such test in perfecting the escape mechanism designed to save the astronauts' lives if they run into trouble during launchings...
This was a complete turnabout from the previous Soviet position in negotiations for a nuclear test ban being carried on here by the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union...
France's Western allies have been puzzled by these antics also and by de Gaulle's slow-down tactics on the summit conference. The French nuclear test in the Sahara is going to be embarrassing at a time when serious consideration is being given to disarmament. The moving of air bases from France to West Germany was strategically inconvenient...
...irradiated foods are not at all radioactive, and no poisonous materials have been found in them. Suspicion is that the radiation may completely destroy natural vitamins (biotin, riboflavin. etc.), since the test animals show classic symptoms of severe vitamin deficiency. But the tests were haphazard and incomplete, so no one is sure that this is really the reason or how irradiated foods can be made assuredly safe. Director Morse has concluded that the whole program had better be restudied...
...edge of poverty. When it moved to Port Huron, Mich., twelve-year-old Tom got a job as a news and candy butcher on the daily train to Detroit. The conductor let him build a tiny laboratory in a corner of the baggage car, and Tom fiddled with test tubes, chemicals and batteries. One morning, his arms full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped" in the boy's head, and his deafness may have...