Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...awful to imagine that the flagrant, repeated opportunism of Robert Kennedy may be rewarded with the Democratic nomination. How can a nation of people searching for a rebirth of an idealism we once knew briefly believe, even momentarily, in a man who waits for someone else to test the bridge before walking across? It is cruel and tragic that McCarthy, a man of proven moral and intellectual values, a man who can and did stand firm in the face of possible disaster, may be defeated by the so-called magic of the Kennedy name and the synthetic charm of young...
Hitler's Rage. Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin, syndicated by Sports Network Inc., stirringly recalled the Summer Olympics of 1936. There was chilling footage showing more than 100,000 fans hailing Adolf Hitler as the games were opened. The test was on for the Nazis' myth of the master race. Closeups caught the Führer clucking with pleasure as his Aryans competed in the qualifying heats against the U.S. team with its Negro stars. But then in the finals, as Owens, the Alabama sharecropper's son, won one, two, three and finally four gold medals...
...cars have proliferated, but the Autogiro-a prop-driven aircraft with a freewheeling rotor in place of a wing-has virtually disappeared, a victim of its own inefficiencies and the remarkable success of the helicopter. The dream may yet come true. California's McCulloch Aircraft Corp. has successfully test-flown a contemporary Autogiro that is safer than a conventional plane, less expensive than a helicopter, and just about as easy to operate as an automobile...
Under the new law, these practices will go out. Some judges and lawyers have been in opposition on the grounds that the technical nature of many cases puts them beyond the understanding of the average or below-average intelligence. Nonetheless, the new rules impose only a minimum test of literacy and knowledge of English-the idea apparently being that the jury system has long rested its ultimate faith in man's common sense, a quality that is not necessarily limited to the educated...
When the votes are counted from Tuesday's Democratic primary, Johnson supporters may claim that a large Republican cross-over to McCarthy makes the results of the primary meaningless as a test of Democratic sentiment...