Word: testings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stake is the Compton Cup, which the Crimson has taken for the last five years. Harvard should win again today. The Compton Cup regatta is regarded as the easiest test facing Harvard in this Olympics year...
...disqualified because her card showed a lower score for one hole than she had actually shot (although the total on the card was correct). Nor will last week's incident be the last-unless something is done about changing a rule that requires a golfer to test his math as well as his skill under the stress of competition, and penalizes mistakes without regard to intent...
...food makers have found, moreover, that women shoppers are as finicky as pussycats about buying pet food; supermarkets now offer her some 124 canned, dry or semi-moist varieties from which to choose. Most companies test their products on their own cats and dogs. At its pet-care center near St. Louis, for example, some 450 dogs and 250 cats slurp and chew Purina pet foods. Sniffing a trend toward "gourmet" dishes for discriminating dogs, Voila Foods for Pets, Inc., was founded this year to market burgundy beef in gravy and beef-kidney stew...
...guard against such abuses, the networks sent out memos after last summer's riots ordering reporters to "tell it like it is." As for the charge of overexposure of the black militants, CBS News President Richard Salant says: "Our test is not whether we approve of the event or agree with the individual, but whether it is legitimate news." But one man's "legitimate news" may be another's sensationalism-and vice versa...
...leak in a secondary fuel line and crossed cut-off signal wires that shut down the wrong rocket engine. The Russians have no moon rocket to compare with the Saturn 5, which is capable of 7,500,000 Ibs. of thrust. NASA Administrator James Webb believes they will soon test a moon booster with a 10,000,000-lb. thrust capacity. With the first manned Apollo orbit scheduled for August and a Saturn 5-powered orbital mission tentatively set for November, NASA estimates that the U.S. still has a half-year lead...