Word: testing
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Wisconsin is shaping up as the most crucial test for both Nixon and Michigan's Governor George Romney. Nixon is favored to win handily in New Hampshire, but he must also win big in Wisconsin to inter his "loser's image" once and for all. For Romney, who last week got a backslapping, arm-squeezing show of support from New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller when he visited Albany to deliver two speeches, the confrontation with Nixon in the Wisconsin primary will be virtually the last chance to keep his candidacy alive. The early book gives Nixon...
...rage. Last week, at the last possible moment, the Kremlin vetoed the printing of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's long-suppressed novel Cancer Ward. The literary community has long regarded the Kremlin's promise to publish the novel in the December issue of the journal Novy Mir as a test of the regime's avowed good intentions. But Solzhenitsyn, author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, last summer denounced censorship in a widely circulated letter and recently was attacked by the editor of Pravda as a "psychologically unbalanced person, a schizophrenic...
...Sprint caused an incoming ICBM to explode at an altitude of 50 miles or less, the results would be more devastating. Quoting from an AEC publication, Lapp reported that in a test of a megaton-range weapon exploded 50 miles over the Pacific in 1958, exposed rabbits had suffered retinal burns at slant distances up to 345 miles from the blast. Furthermore, the AEC document read, "it is felt that there would be some danger to human beings at distances greater than 200 miles under similar circumstances...
...guiding idea behind RGA's successor was a student government responsive to student needs. Whether or not RUS can achieve a degree of responsiveness will be the crucial test of its success or failure...
...influence of the Council will meet its first test today when the Faculty considers the Fouts resolution. President Pusey--who will appear at the next Council meeting--has so far taken no action on the Dow postponement request. If the Council is to have any power or any value at all, these two resolutions (both of which were hotly debated) must be implemented...