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Fear of the Future. Next, Thailand would be severely threatened. In Bangkok last week, the Great Emerald Buddha, Palladium of the Kingdom, had been dressed in his summer costume of emerald-encrusted gold filigree-a ritual uninterrupted by political tension following the recent death of Strongman Sarit Thanarat. Though a scandal involving Sarit's finances has been tossed into the lap of his successor, General Thanom Kittakachorn, and in the north a pocket of pro-Red outlaws persists, anti-Communist Thailand is still the stablest country in the neighborhood. But it would -have a hard time holding up amid...
Called affectionately the "eightfold way," from Buddha's list of eight virtues that lead to the cessation of pain, the theory is based on eight quantum numbers or fundamental properties that can be used to describe particles. The reasoning that supports the eightfold way is advanced quantum mechanics and beyond the understanding of the mathematically unanointed, but one of the predictions of the "way" was clear enough: a particle must exist that has a negative electric charge and a mass- of 1,676 million electron volts. It should have a life span of one ten-billionth of a second...
...next morning, seated comfortably in the back seat of a Cadillac, Richard J. Daley rode through the swirling snow of Cambridge to take a look at Harvard. An extremely serious man, the Mayor has been called "Buddha" because of his tendency to sit impassively and listen. But at any mention of cities, politics or both, he quickly becomes animated...
...rejects vocationalism, but otherwise it is a little hard to determine what sort of education she is talking about. She emphasized the importance of "spelling, mathematics, geography, and grammar," and then states the educated man "would find that mathematics and philosophy are not such strange bed-fellows and that Buddha's teachings can have meaning for the twentieth century American." He will also have "freed himself from the concept of utility." All of this sounds very nice, on first reading, but on the second go-round it comes out as the syllabus for a sort of parody...
...cation needed to deal with the staggering problems posed by overpopulation and underproduction. At the top of the pyramid is Chairman Mao Tse-tung, whom the party acknowledges to be omnipotent and incapable of mistakes. The people are endlessly told that Mao is the sun, the lodestar, the living Buddha, and he is said to be far greater "than the empty, hypocritical and negative Jesus Christ." Peasants are taught to sing...