Word: testings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Test of Character. In Madison, Wis., the state bureau of personnel advertised for an inspector for the beverage and cigarette division of the state tax department: "Young man with ability to drink moderately on the job when the occasion demands...
...nerves of Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "We are not bankrupt," said he to the Senate, "but we do look as if we are determined to end up the richest, fattest, most smug and complacent people who ever failed to meet the test of survival...
...something about it," said the President at his press conference. Secretary of State Herter, on the road to Geneva, would probably sound out De Gaulle on coming to the U.S. Some U.S. authorities believe that De Gaulle may stall until the French test-fire their first atom bomb in the Sahara this summer, and can thus enter NATO's inner nuclear club with stronger cards...
...Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy marched into his office to voice some grave misgivings. The committee's worry: in spite of a technically interesting scientists' agreement last week (see SCIENCE), the U.S. seemed to be floundering around aimlessly at the other Geneva conference-the nuclear-test-ban negotiations that have dragged on since last...
Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore, leader of the expedition to Herter's office, had just come back from Geneva, and he was convinced that the U.S., lacking clear ideas of what it is trying to achieve, had let the test-ban conference become an exercise in futility. Lost in the floundering was the U.S.'s sense-making proposal to ban easy-to-detect atmospheric tests (from ground level to 31 miles up)-a proposal (TIME, April 27) that could be put into effect on short notice if the Russians really wanted to start with a workable...