Word: testes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quality of student life is left is not equipped for the duty. Far too few members of the University family are closely involved, outside the classroom, in the constant informal enterprises and discussions by which the values of an academic community are constantly reexamined and those which stand the test are passed on to the next generation...
...most part, this film is like a Rorschach test. The viewer is forced to relate its elements to each other in his own way. One major reviewer went so far as to claim it a parable on the death...
...there was Louis Slotin, a morose Canadian with an apparent death wish, who conducted tests of critical assemblies by poking curved segments of uranium or plutonium together with a screwdriver while eying his Geiger counter and neutron monitor. One day in 1946, nudging segments of a Bikini test bomb a little too close, he suddenly saw a blue ionization glow in the room-the sign of a dangerously radioactive reaction. He threw his body over the segments until everyone else in the room could hurry out. Although the others lived, Slotin achieved his death wish. He died in agony nine...
...transportation" was taking physical form 7,000 miles away in Everett, Wash. Towed out of a huge Boeing Co. plant came the first aircraft of the new era: the 747 "jumbo jet." After considerable ceremony, the gigantic plane was turned over to technicians to be prepared for its first test flight. Although that flight is not scheduled until December, the 747 is very impressive even on the ground, and its potential is immense. The plane is 231 ft. long, will have a fully loaded weight of 355 tons, a cruising speed of 625 m.p.h. and a possible passenger capacity...
...teachers were dismissed last spring by the local board of a predominantly Negro school district in Brooklyn which was set up to test decentralization of the school system. The local board accused the teachers of trying to sabotage the experiment. The city school board ordered their reinstatement--over local board protests--after the New York teachers union struck for three weeks to protest the dismissals...