Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolution; if it failed, the way would be open for an amendment demanding Powell's exclusion. The motion was defeated 222 to 202, with the opposition composed of Southerners, border-state Democrats, a handful of Northern Democrats and Republicans from all sections of the country. The next test was on a Republican motion to substitute exclusion for the punishment proposed by Celler. Gaining strength, the anti-Powell group won this round 248 to 176. On the final vote, to actually bar Powell from the 90th Congress, the count...
...when its circulation had reached more than 2,000,000. LIFE, which hardly needed extra attention, nevertheless got it when it published a frank and explicit (for that day) photographic account of the birth of a baby. Roy Larsen, who had moved to LIFE, submitted to arrest to test a ban, was acquitted in court...
...those 17-hour-day high school students. Tonight's homework: algebra, study for French test, memorize French dialogue, read a chapter on Molière and answer 16 questions, study for history test, write essay on Brotherhood Week, answer four history essay questions, write ballad for English and composition for Creative Writing. Then I am supposed to have time to work on long-range assignments: reading four books in two weeks, working on a term paper and several compositions. Good grief...
...test, as for so many public officials these days, was Viet Nam. For months Romney has declined to take a definite stance, asking time for deep study of the problem that will include an Asian tour later this year (he first visited Viet Nam in 1965). Fair enough. But last week, with the conclusion of his ruminations still far off, Romney began to claw at Lyndon Johnson's Viet Nam policy without offering a hint of possible alternatives...
...Russia insist that the treaty would not restrict the peaceful development of atomic energy and that they would share any peaceful scientific fallout from their nuclear-weaponry programs. As with the Partial Test-Ban Treaty, France and Red China are not expected to sign the non-proliferation treaty. The Americans and Russians hope that they will be able to persuade the have-nots to put aside their hesitations and go along with the treaty, but expect that the job of persuasion will take at least to fall, when they hope that the United Nations will take up the question...