Word: litmus
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...first test of French President Georges Pompidou's electoral promise of "continuity and opening" was the makeup of his Cabinet. It had to appease Gaullist hard-liners in the National Assembly while satisfying non-Gaullists' expectations of an authentic new look. The litmus was the fate of the general's Foreign Minister, Michel Debre, an unbending and abrasive loyalist and to both sides a symbol of extreme Gaullism. Pompidou persuaded him to accept the prestigious but politically insensitive Ministry of Defense. Then the President put together a Cabinet to his own taste, composed of twelve Gaullists...
...Litmus. Red Guard wall posters demanded the ousting of Li, but he refused to budge. Up went posters demanding "Liberate the Southwest!", and last month Red Guards from Peking dutifully streamed into the Szechwan capital of Chengtu to spread the Maoist gospel and rally the peasants against Li. The peasants were not impressed, and in fact attacked the Red Guards, producing rioting and bloodshed. So serious is the trouble, and so vital is Szechwan as a litmus of the Maoist aspirations, reported Radio Moscow, that last week Mao dispatched his No. 2 man, Defense Minister Lin Piao, to the troubled...
...pound will be undercut; British export costs, swollen by excessive wage gains, will rise, slowing foreign sales of everything from cars and gin to razor blades and woolens. Particularly because his is a Labor government, Wilson's ability to rein in wage demands is almost the litmus test of his ability to set his economy in order...
...late for success, but if it isn't the price will be high and not payable with gimmicks. Any intelligent newspaper reader should know that by now. Halberstam does not provide us with any litmus test for determining what is the right price or whether it should be paid...
...music is a model of clarity. Its expansive, flowing melodies were developed by the chorus, with the soloists assigned more angular parts. Less lofty in style than much of what Hindemith has written recently, it is tautly constructed, as responsive to the text's moods as litmus paper to acid. It is, as Hindemith himself said, a "light, gay piece"-but the gaiety is that of a master...