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...Even millions of dollars of U.S. military equipment, like U.S. policy, has little if any compensating effect. Tons of it pile up each day at the docks and airfields, giving an impression of massive power, then disappear. One of the mysteries of Indo-China is how so much U.S. equipment can be dispersed so quickly and so unnoticeably." Parley in the Village. The erosion was almost too far advanced even for Ngo Dinh Diem, the firm-minded new anti-Communist Prime Minister of Viet Nam (TIME, June 28). Diem arrived in Saigon from Paris last week promising independence, land reform...
...believe," he said, "the day of the small college, independent of the university, definitely to be over. Some of the well-endowed and fashionable ones may go on living for years, decades, but they will be fewer and fewer and eventually even the wealthiest of them are likely to disappear...
...reappear invariably when something else is sought. Craftier folk will attempt to stuff it into telephones, slot machines, parking meters, and the like, without notable success. At last, the aggravated token holder will trudge through the turnstiles once again, step from the platform, betwixt the sliding doors to disappear forever in the oblivion of a one-way trip to Jamaica Plain...
...ghostly particle that the physicists invented to make their nuclear equations come out even. When an atom disintegrates, the mass of its fragments plus the mass equivalent of the energy released should equal the mass of the original atom. Often they do not; a small amount of mass disappears as completely as a snowflake in the ocean. This is serious because the physical sciences are based on the principle that mass can turn into energy and vice versa, but neither can just disappear...
...rope would be zero . . . But since we have a frictionless pulley, and since the problem was posed by that eminent mathematician, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), there would doubtless occur what is known in scientific circles as the Cheshire Cat Effect: both the monkey and the weight would disappear into the substance of this marvelous pulley-monkey tail last-and never be seen again. Q.E.D. ("Damned Queer Effect...