Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criminal justice-such milestones have moved America ever closer to its professed ideals. Few today would cheer the jingoism of World War I, when a pacifist was likely to find his house painted yellow. Most would cheer what Justice Holmes called "free trade in ideas-that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted...
...important difference was that no matter how it was given, children with eczema had less fever and even fewer severe reactions than normal children who got the standard shot. In 1,409 test vaccinations, only two children developed allergic complications, and they were mild and short-lived. Of the test subjects, 300 were later given the legally required shot of standard calf vaccine. Apparently preconditioned, not one suffered ill effects...
Freezing Formula. Johnson has long been the foremost champion of voting rights on the Southern bench-even though he was temporarily stymied in the early stages of U.S. v. Alabama, launched in 1959 as the first major test of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. In Macon County, 97% of eligible whites were registered to vote v. 8% of eligible Negroes-the familiar result of intimidation and tricky tests applied only to Negroes. To avoid giving the federal courts a target for injunction, the Macon registration board periodically resigned. The tactic worked; Johnson found that the 1957 rights law authorized suits...
...aerospace official points out that in projects "on the forefront of technology, there just isn't any perfection." As if to prove that point, a General Electric Co. study made public last week itemized more than 1,300 flaws in an Apollo spacecraft being readied for an unmanned test flight later this year; most of the bugs were the kind that crop up routinely in early stage development of any complex technical project...
Hershey notified the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that the three-hour test would not be given while Congress and the President are considering how to change the draft...