Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radar and radio sources, Pueblo employed the twin antennas mounted forward of the wheelhouse. Domelike direction finders and "tropo-scattering" sensors (which can "read" signals bouncing from the troposphere) are mounted on the foremast to analyze those signals and to eavesdrop on radio communications. The ship is equipped to test salinity levels, temperatures and algae growth in various parts of the Sea of Japan-all valuable information for sonar operators. Pentagon photos of Pueblo taken after the ship's renovation in Bremerton, Wash., show advanced low-frequency antennas that would permit the ship to communicate with U.S. nuclear subs...
...Test. In Manhattan, the Museum of Modern Art placed on display 103 paintings and sculptures by 55 artists that Janis and his late wife Harriet had winnowed from a lifetime of art purchases. Valued at upwards of $2,000,000, they range from Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni's 1913 Dynamism of a Soccer Player, through Arp, Klee, Pollock, De Kooning, and wind up with portraits of Janis by Segal and Marisol. The onetime maker of M'Lord Shirts bought his first Matisse in 1926, went on to become one of Manhattan's most successful art dealers. Still...
...selecting his paintings, Janis hewed to his favorite thesis: the greatest artists of each generation are usually the least understood by their contemporaries. Mondrian and Leger, who Janis believes will stand the test of time better than Picasso, are represented by eight Mondrians, four Legers. Still, Picasso is there with a thorny 1928 Painter and Model, which the Modern's Al fred H. Barr Jr. ranks as one of the most valuable pictures in the collection. What kind of test other than difficulty does Janis apply to art? It must relate to the tempo of the time, says...
...harrowing experience in Vietnam between now and the day I leave I'll be very surprised. I found myself competing with American, Korean and ARVN army trucks; with motorscooters and motorcycles, jeeps, cabs, pedicabs, horsecarts, pedestrians, and other cyclists. The trip I took to the market was one long test of nerves and pedal-power as I continually coughed, wheezed and tried to keep fumes and soot out of my eyes...
...does indeed. Although in many ways a most conservative man, his personal car is a supercharged Ford Mustang capable of speeds exceeding 150 m.p.h. And he likes nothing more than to take a test car out onto his company's San Angelo, Texas, test track just to see how fast it really will...