Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other members of TIME'S medicine team: Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Reporter-Researchers Adrianne Jucius and F. Sydnor Vanderschmidt. Together they began to sift through the evidence and collect data for this week's cover story on the approaching birth of the world's first test-tube baby...
...fifty-fifty chance of winning at blackjack, the odds of striking black gold offshore are 1 in 10-and there have been a lot of losers. Last month Continental Oil Co., having drilled a 12,000-ft. dry hole in the Baltimore Canyon off the Jersey shore, capped the test site and wrote off the $4 million loss. Last week Shell Oil, along with eight partners, having drilled deeper (14,000 ft.) and spent more ($6 million) at a nearby site, said that it too had struck a "duster...
...incurable gamblers that they are, oilmen seldom quit. Shell is moving its rig southward and, along with a group of 18 partners, will sink a second well, to a planned 16,000 ft. Mobil, Exxon and Texaco are pressing ahead with test borings of their own. They recognize that a few disappointments should not cause them to give up the search at sea. So far, only two test wells-the Conoco and Shell dry holes-have been drilled to completion in the Baltimore Canyon. By comparison, at least eleven were sunk into Alaska's North Slope before a good...
Last week Texaco issued a cautious statement suggesting that it might be close to a find at 15,000 ft. in a Baltimore Canyon test site that it shares with several partners, including Getty Oil, Sun Oil and Allied Chemical. The company stressed that no firm conclusions could be drawn from its samples, but the mere hint of a strike sent Texaco's stock up 2½ points...
...real question in the dispute is whether either of the two major tests has much practical value. Besides the steering-wheel test, there was also the avoidance-maneuver test, in which the cars were driven between markers to see how quickly they could swerve to dodge an obstacle without lurching out of control. When the test is performed with the Omni and Horizon, the cars do not begin to veer until speeds approaching 60 m.p.h. Many full-size sedans will do so at much lower speeds. In fact, every car on the highway will...