Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times' correspondent is correct and sources in Washington indicated last night that he is, the commission will propose that draftees be selected at random from a pool of 18 to 20-year olds. According to this account, all men who pass a physical and mental test would be put into the pool. Those not drafted could be sure they would not serve, except in a national emergency...
...Grissom applied again when he turned 18, spent his wartime service as an aviation cadet. After his discharge, he got a mechanical-engineering degree at Purdue before rejoining the Air Force in 1950 to stay. He flew 100 combat missions in the Korean War, later became a hot-shot test pilot. He had a passion for speed, on water, land or in the air: he took up powerboat racing, teamed up with Astronaut Gordon Cooper to buy a piece of a racing car entered in last year's Indianapolis...
...NASA backers are convinced that the race for the moon will continue. Said California Democrat George Miller, chairman of the House Science and Astronautics Committee: "This is a tragedy; nevertheless, it is one of the hazards that take place. Remember, every new aircraft has cost lives of test pilots, and the pilots know it. I am certain that if Grissom, White and Chaffee could come back, they would be the first to urge that the program...
...unprecedented, but it does require agile rethinking on the court's part. The 1952 case, decided by a 6-3 majority, did not speak to the 1967 issue raised by three New York State University faculty members who deliberately refused to sign a loyalty oath in order to test the law. Another university employee also refused the oath. Their points were that "pertinent constitutional doctrines have since rejected the premises upon which" the earlier conclusion rested and that the law is unconstitutionally vague. Pursuing the first point for the majority, Justice William Brennan noted that, though New York recently...
...Sign. That looks like an attractive idea to many; to others, it seems an impossible test of American patience. At any rate, Lyndon Johnson's policy has been to build up U.S. forces to the point where they could, as Schlesinger urges, hold the line in terms of manpower and firepower. But what would happen if the U.S. held its line while the Communists put in more troops? Schlesinger believes that the U.S. already has "enough" strength on the scene to convince Hanoi "that a Communist government will not be imposed on South Viet Nam by force." Yet Hanoi...