Word: testings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HALF-HOUR after thrusting out from earth orbit toward the moon, the astronauts faced a test that was crucial to the first actual lunar landings. They successfully separated their spacecraft from the third-stage S-4B rocket, moved 50 feet ahead of it, then turned to inspect it. After sending the S-4B off into orbit around the sun, Apollo was to continue coasting toward the moon, firing its engine briefly only if a mid-course correction was needed to put the craft precisely on its path...
...they are determined to stay tuned-if not to one station, then to another. By fiddling patiently with their dials, Russians overcome their government's effort to block the airwaves.* As one Soviet listener recently wrote to a Western broadcaster, "It might hurt one's ears and test one's patience. But one does find...
Stretched Time. The psychological tests produced other interesting, but still inconsistent results. The men's performance was unaffected in a test that demands signaling when a particular letter appears in a group of letters flashed on a screen. Another test, in which numbered arithmetical symbols must be put in correspondingly numbered spaces, produced a paradoxical result. The marijuana novices did poorly on this for as long as H hours after smoking, but the habitual users improved their ordinary performance when under pot. A similar discrepancy appeared in a test requiring the subject to keep a stylus on a moving spot...
...tests confirmed the blues player's notion that time seems to be stretched under the influence of pot. Some subjects who had previously been able to gauge a five-minute interval with fair accuracy guessed that the same interval was ten minutes after they had had their smokes. One subject said: "I realize why they took our watches. There was a sense of the past disappearing, as happens when you're driving too long without sleeping. It was the same tonight with eating a sandwich. I'd look down and discover that I'd just taken a bite...
...exports had lessened its chronic trade deficit during November. The franc rose even though France announced a $200 million November trade deficit, triple that of October. The money was stronger because, for the moment, most Frenchmen seemed to be accepting De Gaulle's stringent curbs. But the real test will begin early next year, when unions are expected to demand pay increases...