Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, the ultimate test ought to be: Were our stories credible? Was our book credible? Have they held...
Other sources who could have been Deep Throat by the White House test include Counsel Leonard Garment; Chief of Staff Alexander Haig Jr. or, more likely, someone close to him; Speech Writers Raymond Price, Patrick Buchanan, Benjamin Stein, Franklin Gannon and David Gergen; Haldeman Aide Lawrence Higby; Telecommunications Director Clay Whitehead; National Security Aide Brent Scowcroft; and Domestic Adviser Kenneth Cole Jr. An outside possibility is John Sears, who retained excellent White House sources after his departure as a Nixon counsel in 1969, and whose cigarette-smoking and Scotch-drinking habits, while common enough, correspond to those attributed to Deep...
...them Walters, 44; Stahl, 33; Brown, 35, now stationed in London, and Liz Trotta, 39, correspondent for New York's WNBC-TV. Then Westin resigned last fall in a row with News Chief Sheehan, and the search was suspended. But the network soon commissioned Frank Magid Associates to test viewer preferences; the firm found that 46% would like to see a woman deliver the news, 41% did not care and only 13% would prefer...
...test of college freshmen's knowledge of American history showed students know "the high points" of U.S. history but few of the details, Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History and one of four historians who worked on the study, said yesterday...
...test, administered to 1856 college freshmen at 194 colleges, showed that new "conceptual" or "thematic" methods of teaching history in secondary schools may leave gaps in a student's education, C. Vann Woodward, Sterling Professor of History at Yale who worked with Bailyn, said yesterday...