Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes well on that test, and on the moon orbital flight of Apollo 10 in May, the world could see, by this summer, even more sensational pictures, shot from a platform never before used by a human photographer: the surface of the moon...
...average American male, and whether his average wife would go along with it, the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Irvine H. Page organized a federally financed study of 2,000 men who lived for up to two years on specially prepared foods. One thing that the Cleveland test proved was that the U.S. food industry has no difficulty in preparing such foods, and can certainly do so at a profit, provided there is sufficient consumer demand. It also proved that the diet was effective in lowering the men's blood levels of cholesterol-generally accepted as an index...
...same work, smoking as much and exercising as little, show no consistent difference. This means, to Furman, that the men who have heart attacks-in many cases, fatal-early in life are a metabolically distinct group. The trouble is that so far no one has found a quick test to determine who the susceptible men are, so that they might take special precautions...
...effects of cyclamates in man. But far more interesting than what the FDA said was what it did not say. It made no mention of recent studies in its own laboratories in which a product of cyclamate metabolism, cyclohexylamine, causes breaks in the chromosomes of cells grown in the test tube. Injections cause similar damage to the chromosomes of rats. In terms of effects upon chromosomes in human beings-and therefore, upon future generations-no one knows just what this means. No matter how hard and fast the geneticists try to work, it may take years to find the answer...
...each of a dozen or more games a season. Though they work full time at jobs as various as pharmacist, policeman and bank vice president, their training for the game is extensive. Each summer they attend a week-long clinic climaxed by a six-hour written test. During the season, they are rated by the coaches as well as by Duncan and his staff, who take notes at the games and, after scrutinizing the films, send out critiques for the officials to analyze...