Word: testing
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Star Witnesses. In Russo's case, McGee reported, reactions to a series of questions led a polygraph operator to suspect deception. Moreover, the test seemed to indicate that Russo had a psychopathic personality. But agents from Garrison's office took the list of questions away from the polygraph operator and told him not to say anything. When Garrison presented his case against Clay Shaw at a hearing, Russo and Bundy were his star witnesses. Garrison insists that Shaw, under the name of Clay Bertrand, met in 1963 with Lee Harvey Oswald and David W. Ferric, who committed suicide...
...test his hypothesis, Dr. Rosen later studied men in two mental hospitals in Finland, where the intake of hard dairy fats and the incidence of heart disease are about the world's highest. Finnish doctors put the men in one hospital on a low-fat diet. After five years, their cholesterol levels and their heartdisease death rate dropped, as expected. In addition, low-fat men in the 50-to-59 age range had more acute hearing than men aged 40 to 49 in the nondiet, high-fat hospital...
...Rosen maintains that loss of hearing with aging results largely from clogging and hardening of the minute arteries nourishing the ear. If so, it may be possible to detect future victims of heart disease early in life by a simple, though sensitive, hearing test. Finns aged 10 to 29, on high-fat diets, suffer hearing loss earlier than young Yugoslavs or Cretans, on low-fat diets. To find out whether the pattern holds for the U.S., Dr. Rosen is studying New York City schoolchildren and their parents. If a simple hearing test does indeed give early warning of heart disease...
...latest project-the score for a forthcoming TV musical commissioned by the BBC-is a crucial test, since it is his first major work not built around his harmonica playing. In his own mind he apparently passes the test, for he is now seeking Thornton Wilder's approval for a musical version of The Skin of Our Teeth. "At the moment, I feel I'm a kind of footnote in musical history," Adler explains. "I've put something into concert music that wasn't there before. But if I could make a real mark...
Whole new technologies such as nylon, the first all-synthetic fiber, and neoprene, the first U.S. commercial synthetic rubber, have sprung from Du Pont's cornucopian test tubes. Last year 175 manufacturers built the tops of 12 million pairs of shoes with Du Pont's three-year-old synthetic Corfam, which is supposed to look, feel and "breathe" like natural leather. Early this year, after twelve years and $8,000,000 in research, the company invaded the rich pharmaceutical field by marketing an antiflu drug named Symmetrel, which can be taken orally as either a pill or syrup...