Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three years ago, prodded by some big-city chapters that are more used to career women than the small-town outfits that account for most of the nearly 9,000 Jaycee clubs, the headquarters in Tulsa, Okla., grudgingly decided to allow full membership for females on a test basis in Massachusetts, Alaska and Washington, B.C. The experiment was a hit with many of the chapters concerned. But not, alas, with the 4,500 delegates who attended the Jaycees convention in Atlantic City, N.J., last June. They voted 3 to 1 to ban women, and newly elected Jaycees President Barry Kennedy...
Records started to fall, but the big question remained: Were the new American women tough enough to take on the East Germans head-to-head in an actual meet? Last week the young Americans were put to the test in a distant and Olympic-like setting: the World Swimming Championships held in West Berlin...
...process. Her most dramatic victory came in the 400-meter medley over former Record Holder Ulrike Tauber, 20, who won the gold medal in Montreal. The medley is the most technically demanding event in swimming, requiring mastery of four separate strokes and three different types of turns?the test of the compleat swimmer. Caulkins beat Tauber by an astonishing seven seconds, finishing nearly half a pool length in the lead. In the 200-meter medley, Caulkins smoothly shaved 1.02 seconds off her own world mark. Too nearsighted to see the Scoreboard, she had to get a teammate to explain...
Summing up the meet, Andrea Pollack, East Germany's former world record holder in the butterfly, said: "They trained hard. We trained hard. But they were just better." Indeed, Pollack herself was beaten by another Nashville phenom, 18-year-old Joan Pennington. Next big test: the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, where the outcome may be far different from what it was in Montreal. The American water sprites have come back...
...rigid Pius XII in his approach to the new scientific issues of the age. When the first test-tube baby was born and some Catholic theologians condemned the experiment, Luciani said in an interview, "I extend the warmest wishes to the English girl. As for the parents, I have no right to condemn them. Subjectively, if they acted in good faith and with good intentions, they could even gain great merit before...