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...mutual renunciation-of-force agreement. Paris, London and Washington have all supported Bonn's initiatives-notwithstanding South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's charge last week that Brandt was moving toward a "one-sided surrender" to the Russians. In short, Brandt's progress has been sufficiently brisk to raise conjecture about Ostpolitik's logical finale: What would happen if Brandt should grant full recognition to Walter Ulbricht's East German regime...
Incredibly, both films appear to be doing a brisk business at the box office, thereby presenting the possibility of still more sequels. Perhaps in the next installment, both formulas could be combined. The Carrie Nations, for example, could tumble through the time warp. Or some of the apes could show up in Hollywood, where executive positions await them at 20th Century...
...thrusts, the President displaying anew his ability to retain detail, his satisfaction in intercepting a debater's point, his grasp of the theorems of foreign policy discourse. Yet the conversational format seemed nonetheless ill-suited to the Nixon style and personality, which fit more easily into the brisk, orderly one-shot answer of the mass press conference...
...still get tired." The new hand is described by his boss Lou Whittaker, brother of Everest Conqueror Jim Whittaker, as "bigger than average" (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) but with "good coordination." Last week young Joe had a chance to show just how good he is by easily maintaining the brisk pace set by his mother Ethel as they breezed halfway up the slopes of Mount Rainier...
...revive the economy. The personal savings rate has rebounded. Personal income, already increased by raises in social security benefits and Government pay, will rise further with expiration of the 5% income tax surcharge this week. Most important, the Federal Reserve has been feeding money into the economy at a brisk though uneven rate since February. But since it usually takes nine months for a change in money policy to turn the economy around, business is not likely to start picking up until late this year or early...