Word: testing
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...measures, Abrasimov archly suggested, the simplest way to resolve the situation was for it to recognize the East German government as an independent sovereign state and to establish normal diplomatic relations. In fact, Abrasimov stressed that Moscow regards West Germany's attitude toward East Germany as the acid test for any future dialogue between the Soviet Union and Bonn. Intimating that Bonn's three Western allies lack both effective means and the political will to enforce civilian access to Berlin, he warned that the West Germans would be rendered isolated and helpless unless Bonn recognizes East Germany...
True enough, said the Supreme Court last week, but Mrs. Flast was not arguing about general powers. What bothered her was the specific First Amendment prohibition against an "establishment of religion." By an 8-to-1 vote, the court held that Madison's three pence test was more than satisfied; the New Yorkers, it said, were entitled to try to show that Congress really had breached the church-state wall...
...court's new test for "standing" requires a taxpayer to contend that the statute under attack "exceeds specific constitutional limitations imposed upon the exercise of the congressional taxing and spending power." Which constitutional limitations did the court have in mind? The majority did not say. But Justice Fortas, in a concurring opinion, argued strongly that only the establishment-of-religion clause will...
...test was an effort to set up a standard less demanding than the "probable cause" required to justify an arrest. The court admitted that its test is not as precise as might be wished. But some indication of what is reasonable was given by the three cases that the court decided. In Cleveland, Detective Martin McFadden had watched two men walking back and forth and staring in the window of a store. On the assumption that they were casing the store for a robbery, Detective McFadden stopped them and frisked them. Both were carrying concealed guns and were convicted...
...supreme test of a woman's bathing suit ought to occur in the eye of the male beholder. Seven experienced girl-watchers studied the new designs and rendered the following judgments-on the suits, not the models...