Word: testing
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...unhappy battlefield of Viet Nam, of course, will prove the chief test of the present Administration. Nixon, the onetime hawk, is determined to disengage. He has begun to lessen the U.S. involvement here and has put pressure on the Saigon government to seek peace. It can be argued that he might have done more-some dramatic move after the inauguration, a cutback in American-initiated ground actions. On balance, however, Nixon has done about as much as could be reasonably expected, considering the political, diplomatic and military perils of the situation. At any rate, he has completely changed the official...
...produce a formula for peace, many Americans will be inclined to give him more time for the task of healing the domestic wounds. It is perhaps more likely that a troubled nation will demand progress on both fronts at once-and that may be Nixon's real test...
...most serious domestic problem-the racial and urban crisis-Nixon has already failed his first test. The nation's blacks have been largely ignored, and the Administration has vacillated and backtracked on civil rights. While it has brought important court suits and cut off federal funds when necessary to enforce desegregation, its main thrust, in the proposed voting rights bill and school desegregation guidelines, has been to weaken the national commitment to end racial separatism. So far, the President has done or said little to convince the nation's Negroes that he is on their side...
Armstrong will first test his ability to walk and maneuver in his bulky suit. Immediately after, he will scoop up some lunar material in a sample bag at the end of a long, telescoping handle and place the bag in his pant-leg pocket. Thus, even if the mission had to be aborted at that moment, Apollo 11 could bring at least some moon material back to earth...
Command Pilot Neil Armstrong, 38, could have missed his destiny as the result of half a dozen close shaves. He crashed his Panther jet behind enemy lines in Korea, but escaped a day later. As a civilian test pilot in 1962, he plummeted uncontrollably toward earth when the rocket engine in his X-15 failed to start, but it caught on just in time. As commander of Gemini 8 in 1966, he had to abort the scheduled three-day flight after ten hours when a short circuit threw the spacecraft's thrusters out of control. Last summer...