Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the government is patting its own back, while comedians think it the greatest subject for laughs since mothers-in-law, and while the British public soak in the propaganda about it being "for the good of our society"-surely people can see that the Breathalyser test [Oct. 20] is no different than being forced to take a lie detector test for a suspected crime, and making the results admissible evidence in court. So much for democracy...
...nearly all from poor families, volunteered as a unit, and have been assigned to a special platoon at Fort Lewis, Wash., where they were sent for basic training. Probably because of their stint at the Job Corps center, they averaged several points higher than the norm on the induction test. Without that added education, said Recruiting Sergeant Darryl Adkins-himself a veteran paratrooper-only one out of four might have qualified for the airborne elite...
...thwart them made a litany and legacy forever of such unlikely flecks on the map as Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom up from Kwajalein in test interceptions, and Atlas and Titan missiles from California end their long trial runs with gigantic splashes in the Kwajalein lagoon...
There is every indication that the British educational system has failed. Children are streamed into classes at the age of eleven, according to their score on the British equivalent of an achievement test. Like American tests, the 11+ exam discriminates heavily against children who do not come from middle-class white backgrounds. There is no sign that British-born colored people have an easier-time...
...September 1962, Professor H. Stuart drew the whole of Tocsin into his independent campaign for the U.S. Senate. He received only two per cent of the vote. This set-back combined with the test-ban treaty and the Cuban missile crisis to finish the effectiveness of Tocsin. Finally, protest against the Bomb ended at Harvard...