Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city slums-where three-fourths of U.S. Negroes now live-are a daily test of endurance. Robert Waite, a Sierra Leone native who heads Mayor John Lindsay's Harlem task force, likens the Manhattan ghetto to "an underdeveloped country." It lacks indigenously owned business, gets little risk capital, and keeps losing its talent to bigger industries elsewhere-just as in underdeveloped countries. "In underdeveloped areas," he adds, "colonial banks were the only source of credit, and rarely did an indigenous businessman receive a loan until independence permitted the establishment of local banks...
...from the highway. The sighting, Simon theorizes, served as a "day stimulus" for subsequent nightmares and wish-fulfillment fantasies. Betty, who is childless, described an obviously Freudian encounter with a humanoid who examined her and inserted a six-inch needle into her navel, explaining that it was a pregnancy test. Barney, who generally considers the Irish to be hostile toward Negroes, remembers being treated with respect by a humanoid who looked Irish...
...approach of providing auxiliary systems to take over for any that fail. Moreover, as presently conceived, Johnson's lifeboat will be usable only on near-earth orbits. Even so, work on it has progressed further than on any other rescue system. Small-scale models have been repeatedly drop-tested in laboratory experiments. Computerized simulations of re-entry have uncovered potential flaws that are being corrected; Johnson's nylon heat shield has stood up well under rigorous tests at NASA's Langley Research Center. Next step: drop tests of the full-size boat in the earth...
...damage in cities with paid police forces. However, the claimant cannot collect if he was negligent in protecting his property or failed to advise police that it was in danger. To determine how the law affects victims of the Newark riot, merchants and tavernkeepers are lining up to file test cases...
...eccentric Russian scientist, Elie Metchnikoff, is basically responsible. Puzzled by the longevity of villagers in the backwoods of Bulgaria, he bent over his test tubes at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the early 1900s and concluded that so many Bulgarians lived to be more than 100 because they ate lots of fermented milk. Their yogurt contained Bacillus bulgaricus, which, Metchnikoff decided, chased out the "wild, putrefying bacilli in our large intestine." He consumed untold gallons himself, discoursed profusely about what he believed to be its beneficial effects, and died at the age of 71, leaving behind a mere handful...