Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's "Jobs Now," as one of its founders explains, concentrates on "the kids who can strip a car in ten minutes but can't pass a mechanical-aptitude test." Half a dozen churches with predominantly Negro congregations have rehabilitated apartments in communities from Cleveland to Kiloch, Wis. In the Hough slum, former Cleveland Browns Football Star Jim Brown and Team mate John Woolen formed the Negro Industrial and Economic Union to help Negroes start their own businesses with the help of no-interest loans...
...weeks last October, Air Force crews tried to test-fire their Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile at its silo in Grand Forks, N. Dak. On each of three attempts, its systems control light went red-meaning that the elaborate three-stage bird was unable or unsafe to fire. First it was a failure of a nozzle-control unit, then a glitch in a fail-safe arming circuit, then a guidance failure traced to a tiny capacitor...
Minuteman II has been flashing its red light with disconcerting frequency. The nation's most advanced operational ICBM, with a 7,500-mile range and a deadly megaton warhead, it has performed with 94.9% of maximum efficiency when test-fired under demonstration conditions at Cape Kennedy and other ranges. But when mounted in launching silos across the nation, sitting underground and waiting indefinitely for action, it develops minute but dangerously incapacitating problems...
...Triangles. In almost every test the Israelis have penetrated quickly to the core of Arab resistance. In the fiercely independent town of Nablus in the hills of Samaria, extremists passed the word to Arab shopkeepers not to open up on Saturday, the day-most Israeli tourists visited the town. Rumors spread that the Israelis would soon be gone; those who cooperated with them would be punished when an Arab government returned. As shopkeepers stood uncertainly by their shuttered stores, not sure what to do, the Israelis started a rumor of their own: shops that refused to open might never open...
...with a one-term common interdisciplinary course, which focuses on current issues, taught in small seminars by professors from any field, who try to tap the full range of the students' on-and off-campus experiences. Students must pass a three-hour comprehensive exam in their major field, tests in natural science, social science and the humanities, and a foreign language test...