Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program of Beethoven warhorses will feature the familiar/familial Harvard trio of Richard Kogan '77, piano; Lynn Chang, 75, violin; and Yo-Yo Ma '76, cello, on Friday night in Sanders. This weekend may be an endurance test for Ma who will perform three times in four days. Not that he sours with fatigue, but chances are that you will catch him at his freshest on Friday evening...
...degree in 1960, the headlines in Massachusetts were filled with the case of George Edgerly, a Lowell auto mechanic accused of murdering his wife and then chopping up her body. By mistake, Edgerly's ailing defense attorney had agreed to the admission of a polygraph test that an expert claimed proved Edgerly's guilt. The lawyer desperately looked around for anyone who knew enough about relatively new techniques to cross-examine the supposed expert. Bailey happened to be studying polygraphs for another client's defense. Barely three months after his admission to the bar, he got what he called...
...year later, a reporter asked Bailey if he would supervise a lie detector test for Cleveland Doctor Sam Sheppard, who had already been convicted of murdering his wife. Bailey agreed. To get permission for the test, Bailey mounted what became the first of his now familiar pretrial publicity campaigns. Appearing on a TV talk show, he used a lie detector to uncover the most burning secret of the day: that Johnny Carson would be Jack Paar's replacement on nighttime TV. The tactic did more for his ego than his client. The ploy hardened official resistance, and a state court...
Studying to become an aeronautical engineer, Giannini was a friendless perfectionist who would often spread textbooks on the kitchen table to test their accuracy on a given point. One day when he was 15, an old man approached Giancarlo on a Naples street. He was a bookseller, a total stranger, and he told the boy about a group of students who had formed an amateur theater. "He was like a mysterious phantom messenger from a Bergman movie," Giannini says. "I'd never seen the old man before. I have not seen him since." That night, Giannini went...
...wrote a play at 90 and used it as evidence to refute his son, who wished to seize the aged dramatist's estate on the ground that he was senile. Sophocles won the case. It is to be feared that if Enid Bagnold, 86, were put to the test via A Matter of Gravity, she would not fare quite so well...