Word: testing
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Hannifin was granted access to the North American Air Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., where he monitored NORAD'S worldwide and deep-space observation systems. Another major stop for him was "Pentagon-South," the Army Materiel Command in Arlington, Va., where Army engineers develop and test new hardware...
...influence. Says General David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff: "In many parts of the world, the Soviets have a local advantage in conventional arms. If we had less than rough [strategic] equivalence, I think the Soviets would be willing to be a bit more adventuristic, test a little more, than if there were a rough balance...
...Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. In the next few years, Brown not only worked on the H-bomb but also helped design the first Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile, originated the Project Plowshare plan for peaceful uses of atomic energy, and served as the senior U.S. adviser at nuclear test-ban negotiations with the Soviet Union. Recalls an associate: "He was intense, bright, driving and dynamic, but neither patient nor comfortable with people." In 1961, Brown became one of Robert McNamara's "whiz kids." At 33, he was given the Pentagon's third highest civilian job, director of defense research...
...ultimate test of the cast's ability and the audience's acceptance came in "Pavane", a sketch whose ideas and execution were totally abstract. Accompanied by a Faure theme, the actors represented the idea of birdlike flight using gently floating hands, joined arms and bodies, and bodies moving separately in graceful dance. The placid beauty of the scene was disrupted by the entrance of humanity as a hunter. She killed the birds, and then realized, too late, what she had destroyed. But much to the hunter's astonishment, the fliers are resurrected in spirit. the show ends, as the sketch...
Overcoming a poor start and surviving a head-to-head backstretch duel, Seattle Slew got the first real test of his racing career and handled it courageously to win the 103rd Kentucky Derby by nearly two lengths. His victory was solid, but hardly overwhelming: his time of 2 min. 2 1/5 sec. for the 1¼-mile Derby distance, particularly the slow final quarter-mile, was well off the pace of past champions, even though the track was quite fast...