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...that it will need more time to move than De Gaulle wants to give and that, if necessary, it will stall and haggle to get it. Principally drafted by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who two weeks ago called De Gaulle's view of the NATO alliance "utter nonsense," the reply's first version was so strong that Lyndon Johnson winced at it, sent it back to be given a milder tone...
...arranged, the Indian government protects them against foreign imports by high tariffs and quota restrictions. Says Charat Ram, 49, whose combine of sewing-machine, refrigerator, air-compressor, textile, and chemical companies makes him India's eighth largest manufacturer: "You cannot make a loss unless you are an utter fool. We are absolutely in a seller's market...
...feel that Berryman is daring to say something oceanic, then returning to the concrete with a thump or a blast. And the man is absolute master of his materials, which points less toward facility in the use of stanzas, rhymes, and meters--like Auden's--than toward an utter control over all the possible sounds and meanings of each word...
...Utter Pessimism. In part, the answer is that many Eastern European students are bored with propaganda, restricted literature and limited travel. "We are young and cannot always think only of building socialism," says a Rumanian youth. "It is a fact," says a Czech student, "that the only attractive currents for our generation are coming from the Western part of the world. Here they tell us we are a new generation building a new world; then they insist we dance a folk dance two centuries old." As a consequence, Eastern European girls prefer the watusi, the jerk, and big-beat music...
...youth feel a sense of utter pessimism, a rejection of any kind of political commitment," complains one Communist elder. "They doubt the meaning of positive effort. Their only real interest is sex." Youthful Yugoslav Author Mihajlo Mihajlov recently wrote President Tito that any fears that reading Western literature could "infect" Mihajlov with a "foreign ideology" are unfounded. His proof: "I have been reading Communist literature since childhood, and I still fail to find any sympathy for Communism...