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...round trip. After July 1, truckers and bargers will be required to pay new taxes on their cargoes, and after July 15 all West German travelers will be required to carry passports (in the past they needed only identity cards). In all, the East Germans will collect some $20 million per year in fees on the 13 water, rail and highway routes that connect the city with West Germany...
...American drinking habits-and enjoy arguments about statistics-the latest edition of the liquor industry's Handbook brought some more or less momentous information. The bourbons still reign over all (two to one over Scotch), but vodka, the biggest new "white liquor," passed gin last year, 12.9 million to 12.4 million cases. The Handbook's charts show that vodka hasn't a chance until 1973, if then. Then there's rum. Terrific growth-up 54% in the past five years...
...each of the four iron atoms, which are located in separate "pockets" on its surface, to different positions. This change increases by 300 times the molecule's attraction for oxygen atoms, pulling four of them into combination with the iron atoms. It is only because there are 280 million hemoglobin molecules in each red corpuscle that the blood has sufficient oxygen-carrying capacity for human respiration...
...largely traditionalist in outlook. The Reformed Church-many of its oldest congregations are still known as Dutch Reformed-is strong in the East and Midwest, also has a predominantly white, middle-class membership. If the union is approved, the logical next step would be merger with the 3.3 million-member, liberal United Presbyterian Church, which has made clear its desire for further ecumenical discussions...
...social scientists have not established that there is a "causal relationship between the fictional portrayal of violence in the mass media and any increase of actual violence in American life." But that may be beside the point. What seems to disturb the majority of the nation's 180 million viewers is not the conclusions of sociologists, but the fact that the horrors of war, assassinations and riots are real enough; why bludgeon TV audiences with variations on violence...