Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Different Intervals. Meanwhile in a nonshocking version of his dark-box-light-box apparatus, Ungar tested the preference of untrained mice for darkness. Given their choice between a light or dark box, the test animals spent an average of 138 seconds of a 180-second test period in the dark...
Extreme Dosage. Last week, at a Chicago conference on psychedelic drugs, Dr. Donald R. Jasinski of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that he had produced LSD-like symptoms with tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the purified active ingredients in cannabis. The test patient, he said, developed visual hallucinations, distortions of sensory perception, loss of insight, muscle rigidity and muteness. "He later related that he saw himself shrivel down to a doll, and witnessed his own funeral," said Dr. Jasinski. To Dr. Harris Isbell of the Federal Addiction Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dr. Jasinski's experiments "definitely indicated...
...Robert Clarke, 58, a civil engineer for whom a pleasant afternoon of trolling off Argus Bank, Bermuda, recently turned into a Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young. "A 450-pounder, at least...
...Mountain. Not so long ago, most game-fish anglers favored lines testing at 80 to 130 lbs. of pressure before they would break, heavy, inch-thick rods, and big 9/0 to 12/0 reels almost powerful enough to winch in a whale. But after a fisherman had caught his first dozen sailfish, and heaved enough tuna on the deck to keep the family in sandwiches for years, what sport was there left in the game? What was left was to match the tackle to the fish-and watch his smoke. The 70-lb. white marlin that died like a guppy...
...light-tackle aficionado may hook ten fish for every one he catches. But the one is worth it. Last August, off Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Veteran Angler Lee Wulff, 63, set a world record by landing a 597-lb. bluefin tuna on 50-lb.-test line. Wulff played that bulldog of the deep for 13½ hr. before finally coaxing it to gaff. "Now I know," he sighed afterward, "what a guy feels like when he has climbed a mountain for the first time...