Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spacecraft have their own personal quirks, and 204 had been balky from the start. As an Apollo engineer said: "The first article from the factory cannot come out without birth pains." The spacecraft gave repeated trouble. The nozzle of its big engine shattered during one test. The heat shield of the command module split wide open and the ship sank like a stone when it was dropped at high speed into a water tank. Certain kinds of fuel caused ruptures in attitude-control fuel tanks. The cooling system failed, causing a two-month delay for redesign. But all the bugs...
Such clashes would severely test all the remarkable devices Mao and Defense Minister Lin Piao have developed in the last seven years to tighten their political grip on the military. Since Lin became Defense Minister in 1959 he has tried to turn the PLA into a "Great School" of Maoist thought. He and Mao disapproved of the 1950's soldier, whose mind was directed toward tactics more than politics. The two of them could, with more justification than the Pentagon, use as their slogan for the 1960's: "Join the NEW Army." It is possible, from the scattered evidence...
...Selective Service Qualification Test will be given on March 11, March 31 and April 8. Although the nearest officially designated testing center is at M.I.T., it is highly likely that Harvard students will be accommodated here...
...score of 70 on this test is considered a 'pass' for undergraduates. Graduates most score 80 or higher...
...legislation, which was filed by Senator Leslie B. Cutler (R-Needham) and Rep. Robert L. Cawley (D-West Roxbury), the co-chairmen of the special commission, is designed to meet the test of last February's United States Supreme Court decision in Boxtrom v. Herald...