Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chief of detectives after Parker died, Reddin took a battery of tests-for the top post that pitted him against Inspector James G. Fisk, the department's articulate chief of community relations. Fisk had toiled to heal the wounds of Watts, sending white-Negro police teams into ghetto schools, running workshops for gang members, assigning patrolmen to walk around meeting people and "dispel stereotypes." On the test scores, Fisk beat Reddin by a hairline half of 1%. The city's five police commissioners nonetheless picked Reddin for his overall depth and breadth. As deputy chief, Fisk will expand...
...years ago, in a major test of the Supreme Court's educational desegregation rulings, Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus ordered out the National Guard to prevent Negro pupils from entering an all-white Little Rock high school. Last week Little Rock's school board unanimously named William Harry Fowler, 45, assistant superintendent for personnel-the man responsible for hiring and assigning employees throughout the system. Fowler is a Negro...
When Geneticist James Bonner appears on-screen to speculate about a test-tube superman race between the nations of the world a century from now, the uneasy viewer may feel that he is in the tank with those frogs. A man will "not "brazenly go out and propagate himself," Bonner predicts coolly, but will contribute sperm cells to a central bank, his heirs to be manufactured after his death if a committee decides that he has been a desirable and useful figure in society. On this forecast, echoing the ancient complaint against Plato's "Guardians," English Professor Ritchie Calder...
...measure of poor playwriting that can be applied to dramas like East Wind is the liquidity test. Every superfluous drink the characters sip and guzzle is a time-killing, plot-evading device for shuffling people around a stage. In East Wind the characters down pots and pots of tea with lager chasers, and it takes very steady nerves just to watch it. In the leading role, George Voskovec acts well above and beyond the call of duty. Considering the quality of the play, his reluctance to commit suicide is a marvel of forbearance...
Once in business, the lab can solicit doctors with profitable come-ons. It may offer "all the tests your patients require" for a flat fee of $75 a month-and subtly encourage the doctor who orders 100 tests a month to bill his patients for tests at $3 to $10 each. At whatever price, a test is worse than useless and may have fatal results unless the technicians know how to run it and have the right equipment. On this score also, Dr. Sencer had bad news. More than 20% of test materials examined by the NCDC were found faulty...