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Data on space flight is a valuable byproduct of the billions of dollars the government is pouring into its military missile program. A successful intercontinental ballistic missile, for example, will be a close cousin of a space vehicle, since it will spend much of its flight time in space and would need only 9% more energy to become an earth satellite...
...goal," says Selye, "is certainly not to avoid stress. Stress is part of life. It is a natural byproduct of all our activities; there is no more justification for avoiding stress than for shunning food, exercise or love. But . . . you must first find your optimum stress level and then use your adaptation energy at a rate and in a direction adjusted to the innate structure of your mind and body." How? Dr. Selye boils down his prescription to a light jingle...
...byproduct of the tense tactical discussions among France, Britain and the U.S. over the canal has been a resurgence in Western Europe of the idea of a federated Europe (see FOREIGN NEWS). Newest reason: such a federation would be able-with or without U.S. aid-to stand on its own feet in its dealings with the rising powers of the Middle East and Asia...
...such talk, a reporter asked Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at his press conference. Replied Dulles: "My reaction ... is extremely favorable ... I had the feeling that developments in the Suez situation were moving thoughts somewhat in that direction, and, if so, that probably would be a very happy byproduct, indeed, of what otherwise is a rather tragic affair...
...Corner. Like the herds of problem youths that have sprung up in other places, and in other generations. Britain's Teddy Boys are the byproduct of great social upheaval. Born for the most part of poor parents in the slums of Britain's big cities, they had sketchy education and their home life was almost nonexistent. Thanks to the war, they spent much of their childhood herded together in shelters, or evacuated in groups into an alien countryside where the activities of all city boys are regarded with cold suspicion. Back in the cities again, they began...