Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Mamas and The Papas, Dionne Warwick, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Mercer and Burt Bacharach get together in "The song-makers," explaining how they test-and play to-the public's ever-changing taste. Repeat...
...scene might have been a Southern county courthouse in the bad old days, with a white registrar administering a literacy test designed to confound even the best-educated Negro. Actually, the setting was a U.S. Senate chamber, and the Negro was Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, who seeks to vote not in a Southern election but as an As sociate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...itself not against others but against its own past, the U.S. has good reason to believe that the country as a whole is growing less violent. The roots of violence in the American past are obvious: the Revolution, the Indian wars, slavery, the Civil War, that crucial and necessary test between two societies (when Fort Sumter was fired on, Emerson said: "Now we have a country again. Sometimes gunpowder smells good"). Race riots erupted almost as soon as the Negroes were emancipated, the worst being the New York draft riots of 1863. The Ku Klux Klan relied on raw violence...
...mother, "I made sure I gave them names that would look nice on a marquee." Juliet, 25, is a West End actress, and Jonathan, 17, is a budding director. Hayley got into lights at age twelve when Film Director J. Lee Thompson saw her riding horseback and decided to test her for a part originally intended for a boy. She won, and stole the film-the 1960 thriller Tiger...
Armed with a pair of 2-in. metal bars, one of them magnetized, Surveyor 4 was designed to test the extent to which material in the moon's crust may be attracted by a magnet. In turn, this information might have yielded new clues as to whether the moon's surface features were formed by volcanic activity or by the impact of meteors...