Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only should we women take advantage of scientific bottle feeding, but we should encourage research on test-tube reproduction to free us from the animal miseries of childbearing, so that we would have the time and. energy to utilize our brainpower for a better society...
...grand communization plan extends beyond the farm and city to the whole Cuban society. It calls for creation of the "New People" of Cuba, who will be tireless, combative and intellectual by design. Toward this end of changing man's nature, the Castro government has set up a test laboratory on the Isle of Pines-now renamed the Isle of Youth-where young volunteers go and live under a strictly supervised communal society, study and work in an economy nearly free of money. "We don't feel that Communism can be developed by encouraging man's ambition...
...gaff six times. Each time the gaff tore loose, and Big Daddy finally escaped when the line parted. Last year Dr. Lyman Spire of Fayetteville, N.Y., was trolling off St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire was so discombobulated that he "bird's-nested" his reel; the line snapped. "It's just as well," he sighed. "Otherwise I would have lost all that good line...
...sets could not really tell for sure. Paris' Huntley and Brinkley-Pierre Dumayet and Pierre Desgraupes-as well as all of the other news regulars, remained off the air. Filling in for the eighth straight week were sketchy, scab-produced newscasts and a veritable festival of test patterns, canned variety shows and film antiques...
Even under normal circumstances, French TV is hardly much livelier than the test pattern. Save for an occasional penetrating documentary or a good movie, programming is a dusty grind of westerns, inane quiz shows, and U.S. imports, such as Les Incorruptibles (The Untouchables) and Mission: Impossible...