Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENEVA, Feb. 13--The Soviet Union raised new objections today to the international staffing of control posts and thereby deepened a basic East-West dispute holding up progress in the nuclear weapons test ban conference. Soviet chief delegate Semyon Tsarapkin and Professor E.K. Federov questioned the integrity of international personnel...
...ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon's IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy records for pilots with certain specifications. Among them: a university degree in the physical sciences or engineering, completion of military test-pilot training, a minimum of 1,500 logged hours of flight time, age less than 40, maximum height 5 ft. 11 in., superb physical condition, and physical and psychological attributes suited for space flight. Last week Keith Glennan, boss of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announced that NASA had found...
...Switzerland's 22 cantons last week, this bulwark of the Swiss way of life was meeting its supreme test: the first nationwide referendum on whether women should vote. Typically, the campaigning -both pro and con-was conducted with sobriety, even with somnolence. No suffragettes surged in milling thousands through the streets; there were no feminist rallies, no raised voices. Even the potent Frauenverein, the women's organization responsible for the lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue...
Steadfast Bra. The first bra on the market with Velcro, the nonmetallic, zipper-like fastener made of thousands of tiny nylon hooks and loops (TIME, Sept. 8), is being test-marketed by Charmfit of Hollywood. The bra fastens in the front, thus can be easily put on. Cost...
...altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule. In Cook's sprawling research labs, another team of engineers is working with its big cobalt 60 facility, testing for lubricating oils and ceramics that will withstand the heat and radiation produced by atomic aircraft. One of Cook's biggest jobs is to test missile and other weapon components. Explains one Cook engineer: "If you have two components, each only 90% reliable, your circuit is only 81% reliable...