Word: testes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States countered in Washington with an announcement that unless the Russians carry out another nuclear weapons test, the United States will maintain its own ban for one year beginning Friday. Both Britain and the United States said the talks with the Russians will...
With its soft. length and 22-ft. wingspan, the X-15 looks more like a missile than an airplane. A sophisticated descendant of the X-1 rocket plane in which Test Pilot "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound barrier (TIME, June 21, 1948), it is expected to reach 3,600 m.p.h.-twice the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen...
...Edwards A.F.B. on the Mojave Desert, the X-15 will be introduced to air and space by easy stages. First it will probably be dropped unpowered to see how it lands. During February 1959 North American's Test Pilot Scott Crossfield will make the first powered flights, using low-powered rocket engines. Then will come tryout flights with the 50,000-lb. engine. At some point in this feeling-out process, the X-15 will be turned over to the Air Force. Then Captain Robert A. White, 34, who became the Air Force's choice as test pilot...
...Ability of students admitted to college is rising sharply. Stanford reports an upswing in aptitude test scores between 1951 and 1956 "so great that the lower half of the class entering in 1951 simply would not have been admitted in 1956." But college faculties, suggests Professor Wise, "have neither fully sensed this radical change nor taken adequate steps to provide challenge and stimulation for these new students." An alarming statistic: only about half of the students in the upper 20% of ability stays on to graduate...
COMMUTER SUBSIDY will be tried by Philadelphia in six-month test. City council will give $160,000 to the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads. In return, rails will increase commuter trains to and from suburban Chestnut Hill, and pare one-way fare from...