Word: testes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Convention in 1948, prompting a walkout by Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats. He showed foresight when he crusaded for Medicare 15 years before it became law and proposed a Peace Corps nine months before it was established. His peace credentials, validated in the struggle for enactment of the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, were always gilt-edged?until Lyndon Johnson and Viet Nam happened along...
...initial test of the new court's courage will come from its right to rule on the constitutionality of the six star-chamber courts that were created by the government to try cases related to the war. Whether the Supreme Court justices will dare to challenge those capricious representatives of the executive remains to be seen. But the star cham bers are clearly in need of some sort of control. Presided over by judge advocates with no legal training, those courts have allowed no pre-trial examination or right of appeal. Moreover, they have been ruling on both military...
...PUMP HOUSE GANG (309 pages) and THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST (416 pages) by Tom Wolfe. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $5.95 each...
...latex first hits the fan at 6 a.m. most days, earlier if there is to be an extra-special effect, say a burning at the stake. About two hours later, the actors arrive for rehearsals, and then go through a technical run-through to test the special effects. At that point, the vampires with lines prerecord the dialogue: actors can't speak clearly with false fangs in their mouths. Later the lines are put onto the video tape. In the afternoon come makeup sessions, the dress rehearsal, and then the actual taping of the show that will be aired...
NASA is forging ahead with its plans for the first manned test flight of the Apollo spacecraft on Oct. 11. But a De cember mission, in which astronauts were to have rendezvoused and docked their Apollo command ship with an LM, has been pushed back until February by problems in the Grumman-built module. In place of the LM flight, a manned Apollo flight has now been scheduled for December, the first to be powered by the mighty Saturn 5 rocket...