Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Defense Department, told the Senators that he had devised dart launchers that were disguised as walking canes and umbrellas. In addition, he developed a device that fitted into a fluorescent bulb and spread a biological poison when the light was turned on. Senseney also participated in a joint test by the CIA and Defense Department of the New York City subway system's vulnerability to a poison-gas attack in either 1966 or 1967. Without the knowledge of New York City officials, the scientists threw containers of a simulated poison on the tracks of two subway lines. Passing trains...
...have to test their defense," Restic said. "They're very tough and today will tell how good we are up front." With All-Ivy Carl Culig at center, flanked by guards Joe Antonellis and Kevin McCafferty along with senior Bob Wagner joining Jiggetts up front, Kubacki and company should have plenty of running room...
None of the operators are crooks but they don't exactly stress caveat emptor either. A smart buyer knows how not to get stuck with a bum part. Every yard on the alley will test any movable part upon request and most are proud to explain the special one-time guarantee--the part will be replaced free of charge if it fails to work up to and including the first time it is used after installation...
...three objections to this solution. One has to do with how it affects Jewish freshmen as members of their class and the university community. My second objection has to do with the test that the University is putting to new students on their very first day at Harvard The third objection deals with the fact that this solution reflects a general attitude toward Judaism on the part of the University which constitutes the official policy of this University, and is supported by both Jews and non-Jews...
...tolerated outside of it. "Business as usual" at Harvard on Yom Kippur therefore constitutes a pressure--to conform. I'm certain that some freshmen will, for the first time in their lives, ignore Yom Kippur, join their non-Jewish classmates at registration, and resent being put to the test. I know this for a fact because freshmen of previous years have told me so. And so I wonder, "Why should the University put impressionable young Jews to such a test at the outset of their Harvard career?" I ask, "What is the counter-value, apart from bureaucratic considerations and lack...