Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Test for Politicians...
...means unusual, there is clearly enough cruelty involved to "spring" many prisoners under the Eighth Amendment which guarantees no cruel or unusual punishment. What I cannot understand is that the legal profession with its intellect and the A.C.L.U. with its moral superiority do not seem to have found any test case...
...background of the situation has become unpleasantly familiar to New Yorkers. The city's board of education last year set up a pilot project in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section to test school decentralization, which would allow "the community"-the parents themselves and the neighborhood leaders-to run the schools. Only that way, supporters of the scheme claim, will ghetto children get sympathetic teachers with a more flexible approach to their special needs. Most professional, unionized teachers deeply distrust the idea. And when the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing committee asked for the transfer of 13 teachers that it considered...
Electronic Breaks. So far, only a few medical centers in the U.S. are test ing L-dopa, which can be used only by research physicians, since it has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for general prescription. Results at Manhattan's Neurological Institute over a six-month period and at Miami's National Parkinson Institute are similar to Dr. Cotzias'. The National Institutes of Health and the Parkinson's Disease Foundation are work ing to increase the number of centers that will be approved for L-dopa trials...
Before making a lunar landing, space experts say, the Soviets will probably want to test two techniques that they have not yet attempted: 1) manned rendezvous and docking in space, and 2) an unmanned soft landing on the moon. Unmanned Russian spacecraft have twice rendezvoused and docked auto matically in earth orbit, but the technique would be far more difficult near the moon, 240,000 miles away from terrestrial control stations. And the Russians have yet to demonstrate a soft-landing system as reliable as the one that lowered five U.S. Surveyor spacecraft gently to the lunar surface...