Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played on a championship course. The U.S.G.A. stages nine tournaments of its own, including the U.S. Open, and the ground rules are strict. "We narrow the fairways, raise the roughs and collar the greens," says Executive Director Joseph Dey Jr. "We want our tournament to be a true test of skill." That it is. The lowest score ever in the Open was the 276 shot by the magnificent "Wee Ice Mon," Ben Hogan, in 1948-14 strokes more than Gay Brewer took at Pensacola last week. Dey complains that the rash of low scores in P.G.A. tournaments "cheapens the concept...
...John McLean Morris has given large doses of one of the standard estrogens to more than 100 women for four or five days immediately after unwanted coitus-in many cases from rape or incest. There have been no pregnancies. In the absence of any short-order pregnancy test, no one knows how many there would have been without the medication, and the drug produces severe side effects (bleeding, clotting, nausea) when used this way. But the idea is so attractive that virtually all pharmaceutical manufacturers are pursuing...
...baseball, he tosses off such words as indigenous and meaningfulness. Bauer finally had to take him to task. "Don't give me none of your high-falutin talk," he ordered, "I can't understand you." Which might get to be a problem if Mike passes the jug test...
...computer-controlled blind landings, the U.S. is somewhat behind British aviation, which has already made 15,000 fully automatic test landings with six different kinds of planes. British pilots keep their hands entirely off the controls as the plane descends, while electronic devices operate the control surfaces and throttle all the way to touchdown. British aviation authorities may certify the VC-10 and other aircraft for fully automatic landings in zero-visibility conditions on regular passenger flights as early as 1969. But U.S. landing systems are also being perfected. Last month a Pan Am jet made a fully automatic landing...
...that much preparation, McDonnell easily won the competition to build the Mercury capsule. Then well-publicized goofs marred the early phases of the program; it was almost more than Perfectionist Mac could bear when NASA cameras detected a loose nut and a crumpled cigarette package during a zero-gravity test of an early capsule. The problems were overcome so completely that Astronaut John Glenn, America's first man in orbit, popped from his Friendship 7 Mercury capsule and sent his regards to the manufacturer as "a very satisfied customer." Later, at the plant, Glenn told the teammates: "Your hearts were...