Word: testings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other events have conspired to make the military seem incompetent and worse. Pueblo shocked the nation. The much-heralded F-lll fighter-bomber had to be grounded while its defects were investigated. A House subcommittee charged technical failures and deception in a tank development program. A deadly nerve-gas test went awry, killing thousands of sheep, and the Army tried to cover it up. The once vaunted Green Berets are enmeshed in an ugly scandal. All these and more come atop popular anger over high taxes and prices. A new Gallup poll indicated that 52% of the public now regard...
...knows how deeply the Sept. 3 inquest at Edgartown will test Kennedy's story. Some lawyers think that the hearing can legally consider only the immediately pertinent questions of whether and how much Kennedy had been drinking, what time he left the party with Mary Jo and how fast he was driving at the time his black Oldsmobile leaped off the Dike Bridge. After all, an inquest is structured to be a kind of legal fishing expedition to determine whether or not a crime may have been committed...
...logging trails thickly overgrown with branches and undercut with creeks, rockslides and oozing beds of mud. After that, every last trace of trail was obliterated. The drivers were forced to slash their way down a seemingly impenetrable slope of mountain. As much as anything, the race was designed to test the vehicle's mettle. Said Dick Advey, director of Action Age Inc.: "Americans are so performance-conscious that it would be impossible to have any kind of vehicle in this country and not have it raced. That is what snowmobiles had to do, and these new vehicles...
...usually good buy is a demonstration car, which is driven by auto salesmen for test runs and sold late in the year. These cars, ordinarily well cared for and loaded with optional equipment, are generally the last to be sold, but they often go at prices well below the cleanup levels. Most dealers get a 50 rebate from the manufacturer for every mile shown on the speedometers of their demonstration cars, and they may be willing to pass on the saving to the customer. A $3,100 Chevrolet Impala with 5,000 miles, for example, may cost the dealer only...
...beat Claibvorne Farm's Dike, the second finisher, by six and a half lengths. The weight handicappers could take little solace in the fact. In the Belmont at a mile and a half Dike had been beaten seven and a half lengths by the Rokeby colt. Saturday's test was two fulongs shorter and Arts and Letters gave his nearest rival six pounds in the weights...