Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Critical Test. Dubcek himself was busy trying to counter a growing mobilization of the conservative, hard-lining Communist bureaucrats still scattered in key positions throughout the government and economy. His first really critical test looms at the end of this month, when he intends to summon a Central Committee plenary session and try to force the resignations of some of the old guard among its 110 members. The conservatives, in turn, hope to have rallied enough support by then to turn Dubcek out of office and replace him with Alois Indra, 47, a onetime railway worker who sees things Moscow...
Attitudes to Test. In quest of reassurance about U.S. intentions, Gorton this week flies to Washington for two days of talks with Lyndon John son, whom he met only at Holt's funeral. Johnson and the men around him will certainly try to allay Gorton's fears. They feel that Australia's 19th Prime Minister, a comparative novice in world affairs, may have read too much significance into U.S. election-year oratory-notably Bobby Kennedy's and Eugene McCarthy's dovish stand against further Asian involvement. Still, Gorton intends to test the candidates' attitudes...
...Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Glen Campbell. Others have formed their own publishing and production firms and boosted their annual income to $350,000. But for the others, such achievement has usually filled out a lifetime. Jim Webb has done it all in 18 months. Now one of the hot test talents in pop music...
Handlin said last night that in his opinion the enforceability of the public discussions clause will never come to a test. "Dow certainly wouldn't turn down the free publicity of a public platform," he said, "and I don't think any 500 students will care enough to force a meeting...
Counsel for the defense had originally said that the case was an opportunity to test the legality of the war in Vietnam and the nation's draft laws...