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...Fulbrigt's analysis the Gaullist design, though "bold and even creative in tactics," has objectives that are "profoundly conservative." He described the Gaullist program as an attempt to restore the "classical balance -of-power system," a "precarious equilibrium" between"separate sovereign entities." The world that De Gaulle imagines, Fulbright said, is exactly analogous to the Europe of a hundred years ago, except that the sovereign entities of the 19th century were individual nations, while those of the Gaullist system would be the "super- states" of North America, Europe, and the Communist bloc...
...potent, is a chemical relative of the ergot drugs, synthesized in 1943 by Swiss Chemist Albert Hofmann. As Discoverer Hofmann found, and countless psychiatrists have since confirmed, a dose of LSD-25 can be so small as to be almost invisible and still destroy a man's mental equilibrium, at least temporarily. As little as four-millionths of an ounce is sometimes enough to throw an emotionally wobbly individual into a mental hospital. One victim, ill for months, was a psychologist who was trying out LSD himself...
...equilibrium of Europe, the guarantee of peace along the Rhine, the independence of the Vistula, Danube and Balkan states, the creation of some form of association with the peoples all over the world to whom we have opened the doors of Western civilization, an organization of nations which will be some thing more than an arena for disputes between America and Russia-these surely are our great interests in tomorrow's world. (1944) Perhaps it might be possible to renew Franco-Russian solidarity in some fashion, which, even if repeatedly betrayed and repudiated, remains no less a part...
...Weil withdrew the rod, the meters clicked faster and faster. Fermi did some calculating with the little slide rule he always carried with him. "This is not it," he said. The rate of radiation leveled off as neutron emission from uranium and neutron absorption by cadmium came into equilibrium...
Then, suddenly realizing that Billy has almost succeeded in piercing his only armor, he cries: "Oh, no! You would charm me, too. Get away! Get away!" For Claggart sees Billy's goodness as a threat to the evil equilibrium of his very existence...