Word: testings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test human tolerance to supersonic airliners, which may disturb as many as 130 million Americans every day by 1975 with sonic booms, a panel of scientists last week recommended an immediate program of experimental flights over populated areas. "It's not clear," said Harvard Scientist Roger Revelle, "just how intolerable is 'intolerable.' " That question would apply to many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset...
...Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin observes, the test of intelligence is not what men know how to do, but "how they behave when they don't know what...
Before approval of the limited atomic test ban treaty five years ago, Jackson told the Senate, his committee was assured by scientists that enough had been learned from atmospheric tests to design electronic components that could withstand EMP's current surges. But Jackson is not convinced. Now that researchers are limited exclusively to confined underground tests for guidance, he said, they are prevented from solving the EMP problem completely-especially for missiles in flight...
...sportsmen always does, that the better team will win. And when all is said and done the better team probably will win, for failures and flukes are as much a measure of a team as splended gains and wonderful charges. If a team fails in a crucial test, it is not the better team at that time, whatever it may have been before or may be after. But, to be frank, the philosophy of hoping that the better team will win is curiously involved with a good deal of believing that we (and Yale men feel this, too) shall...
...Scopes, now 68, a retired geologist living in Shreveport, La.: "This is what I've been working for all along." Except for a legal technicality, Scopes might have achieved last week's victory more than four decades ago. Indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in the 1925 test case, he was convicted and fined a nominal $100 by a circuit court judge. Tennessee's Supreme Court later voided the circuit court fine, on the ground that the jury and not the judge should have set the penalty. By its action, the state court prevented Scopes from taking...