Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackass Flat, Nev., the AEC carried out, and later announced in deadpan fashion, the first full-power ground test of the Kiwi-A nuclear rocket engine-an event most newspapers ignored. Developed at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory by a team headed by Dr. Raemer E. Schreiber, the engine worked perfectly. All details (thrust, temperature, etc.) were secret, but Senator Clinton P. Anderson is officially entitled to hear them as chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Wired Anderson to Dr. Norris E. Bradbury, director of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: CONGRATULATIONS. THIS...
Unless the triumphant Los Alamos men decide to give Kiwi-A a second full-power run, last week's test will probably be its finish. After a few days, when radioactivity dies down somewhat, the unshielded reactor will be hauled along a railroad track by a remote-controlled locomotive to a special MAD (Maintenance, Assembly and Disassembly) shop, where mechanical hands will take it apart. The condition of its still deadly interior parts (examined by periscope, TV, or through thick, transparent shields) will tell the Los Alamos men much about how to build nuclear rockets that actually...
...plot: a bartender is murdered by an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara), who tells the police he committed the crime because the bartender had beaten and raped his wife (Lee Remick). The wife supports the lieutenant's story, and a lie-detector test, though not admissible in evidence, supports her account of the rape. But the medical examiner finds no physical evidence that the woman was violated. What's more, the lieutenant's wife is a well-known tramp about camp. Obviously, the prosecution reasons, she had been a willing partner in whatever happened with the bartender...
...readily because the smooth precision of his speeches always suggests that he knows precisely what he is saying, while the snarls of a Harry Truman, for instance, are often ascribed to a sort of folksy hot temper. Yet Nixon has quite a temper of his own. Once, in a test at law school, asked a question about the President of the American Bar Association, he replied: "If he is anything like his predecessors who opposed the confirmation of Justice Brandeis, he is a son of a bitch...
Tobaccoless Cigarettes. A new cigarette that contains a combination of processed natural fibers instead of tobacco is being test-marketed by Bantob Products of New York. Called Vanguard, the loosely packed cigarettes smoke like tobacco, taste like nothing, smell like incense. Cost: roughly that of other filter cigarettes...