Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certain that he had outpointed former Congressman Robert Duncan, 47, for the party's senatorial nomination. With returns nearly complete, Morse, 67, squeezed through by 173,000 votes to 167,000, a margin of 2%. Even at that, the victory was more a matter of luck than a test of Morse's strength...
...exile, most of it on inhospitable, isolated, mosquito-plagued Kili Island, the 300 or so Bikinians have huddled in a beachfront slum, longing for their beloved strand of islets around a life-sustaining lagoon. They still cannot go home. The U.S. Defense Department wants to keep Bikini for a test site should the nuclear-testban treaty ever break down...
...88th birthday, Helen Keller died in her home at Easton, Conn. Soon after entering college, she wrote: "A potent force within me, stronger than the persuasion of my friends, had impelled me to try my strength by the standards of those who see and hear." Her success in that test is her epitaph...
...that Fortas is anything but his own man. Before joining the court, he had a long and distinguished record as a civil libertarian and a defender of State Department employees during the McCarthy era. He argued an insanity case that widened the old did-he-know-right-from-wrong test, and he was the court-appointed attorney who handled the appeal of Clarence Gideon who won for himself and all other indigents the right to a state-supplied lawyer in serious criminal cases...
...language requirement, for example, has been reduced from two years to one. Those students who enter Harvard with-out having satisfied the requirement on a College Board Achievement Test in high school, must take a language course to pass the requirement in their freshman year...