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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...
...pursuit of science. These newly seagoing Texans talk and look like oceanographers from Massachusetts or California, but some of them wear high Texas boots while they probe the depths of the Gulf. The system most used for drilling in the open Gulf is a sophisticated outgrowth of the simple, pile-supported platform. Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston starts with what it calls a "jacket": eight heavy-walled steel cylinders, 34 inches in diameter and up to 100 feet long. It sets them upright in two widely spaced rows, and braces them with a criss-crossing network of strong piping welded...
...directly converted to U.S. dollars but can be converted to still other currencies which TIME can use. On occasion, Ryus has considered some weird and wonderful schemes to realize at least some dollars from "pazooties." "I particularly remember one idea of several years ago - to soak up a whole pile of blocked Dutch guilders by buying cheeses and bringing them...
...doctor about his private life. You would simply pick the best doctor." Last week his Kaffeeklatsch-and-candor campaign paid off with a 6-to-1 victory in the Democratic primary. Jimmy is almost sure to win in November, unless, as often happens in soap operas, the problems pile up again...
...records and statistics, but the students themselves. Describing her year's work, she cites the spring as the busiest time; "there is a steady crescendo of activity from mid-years on," she says. And yet it is this period that Mrs. Robinson likes best, when theses are due and pile up in her office, when honors records must be prepared, and when mark-seeking students either line up far out into the Holyoke. House hallway or just swarm wildly into Room 8. For it is then, she says, that "I can finally see some results coming out of my work...