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...were so short of trucks that they had to press some milk trucks from Kiev into service. Despite that shortage, the Russians have been sending some trucks to North Viet Nam. If Henry Ford comes back home with a proposed deal, Washington's reaction will be an important litmus of just how willing the U.S. is to liberalize trade with the East...
Bahr's assignment caught just about everyone by surprise. Brandt decided to use the dramatic gesture as a litmus of Soviet intentions. In three sessions last month with West German Ambassador Helmut Allardt, Gromyko set forth hard conditions, including Bonn's recognition of East Germany, before Moscow would consider signing a renunciation-of-force treaty with West Germany...
...President has felt that the time has come when he could no longer try to hold everybody in the tent," a top aide explains. The Administration now seems committed to the politics of polarization. Viet Nam is the touchstone of division, the litmus test of loyalty. Nixon's aim is to demonstrate to Hanoi that the protesters do not speak for the American public, and so gain time and leverage for his plan for a gradual U.S. disengagement from Viet Nam. In the process, the Administration is splitting conservatives from liberals, drawing a line between dissenters and Americans...
...says Anthony F. Philip, a psychologist who heads the Columbia College student-counseling service, are driven by an "intolerable, chronic, low-grade depression," which includes "a sense that somehow they have been cheated by life." Psychologists cannot predict which social drinkers will become alcoholics, and they have no sure litmus test for spotting potential drug abusers either. They warn, however, that the young should be particularly worried if they find themselves popping drugs to overcome an emotional upset or calm their worries about the draft, bad grades or their careers...
...litmus test of the new permissiveness is the degree of outrage it provokes. Though Oh! Calcutta! and other current offerings contain countless scenes, words and inferences that would have stirred a tempest a few years ago, New York City's high-minded cops have acted against only one play (Che!) and one nudie movie (Muthers) since...