Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test scores are used to select candidates for admission and IQ scores are also disregarded. Reading and writing samples, school records and personal recommendations, "and a lot of intuiton" are taken into consideration, Ryerson explains. "We have kids who dropped out of high school. We have kids who, when they came, never thought they could go to college," he adds...
Adams climbed into its cockpit last week for his seventh flight. His craft was carrying instruments to collect micrometeorites, determine which of the sun's rays are absorbed by the atmosphere, and test an experimental coating for a Saturn rocket booster. It was the X-15's 191st flight since the U.S. first used it to explore the fringes of space in 1959 and, by the exacting standards of the men who fly the X-15, it was a routine mission...
...recovered for several years, but then suffered a relapse. They insisted that in animal experiments severed ends of cord had been snugly sewn together but that regeneration had been brief at best, due to formation of scar tissue. If Dr. Murray's spinal-cord repair stands the test of time, it will be an impressive achievement indeed...
...with detail; he shoots 9,000 ft. of film to get a usable 90 ft. He demands that his sets have a lived-in look-right down to scuff marks on the door. For a takeoff on old aviation movies for Utica Club beer, he screened the 1938 movie Test Pilot to see exactly how Clark Gable flipped back his goggles. For a series of quick shots focusing on a variety of stomachs for Alka-Seltzer, he spent ten days "interviewing abdomens," auditioned 40 belly dancers until he found one without stretch marks around her navel. In one three-second...
...another test, the Department of Agriculture last July examined non-federally inspected processed meat products on grocery-store shelves-including Atlantic & Pacific, Kroger and First National Stores-in 38 states. Of the 162 samples tested, only 39 were able to meet federal standards. In most cases, the products contained more than the specified amounts of water, binder, cereals and nonfat dry milk, additives that do not necessarily injure health but do devalue the meat...