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...energy fields. Crowding the spheres as close together as possible around a central sphere, he found that instead of forming a still bigger sphere, they made a 14-faced polyhedron-six of the facets in the form of squares, and eight as triangles. Fuller called this figure a vector equilibrium because the outward thrust of its radial vectors is balanced by the restraining force of its circumferential vectors...
...Equilibrium. These are some of the problems and challenges of an economy that on the surface produced in 1963 just the kind of balanced year that economists have been trying to order up. The steady growth brought no dangerous excesses that might overturn things and cause a recession. The economy seemed in healthy equilibrium, and no one foresaw the immediate end of the recovery. It remains for 1964 to demonstrate whether the economy has the drive not only to break more records but to achieve that extra something that it also needs. The time seems to be at hand...
...declared at Belley, "even if we are its allies for the equilibrium of the world, we do not want it to direct us or even become our protector." On the other hand, he hinted that France would be delighted to become the protector of a "third world" consisting of Africa, Asia, Latin America "and all those countries that are developing their personalities...
...eleven minutes late on the New York Stock Exchange as the sell orders flooded in. Between noon and 1 p.m., nearly 1,400,000 shares had changed hands, and prices went down as much as 4.98 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average before the market got its equilibrium back...
...Department today has very serious administrative problems and goes through more internal upheavals than are good for it. Social Relations also maintains a most precarious equilibrium: in attempting to balance the proper amount of interdisciplinary pioneering and in trying to divide its energies equally between undergraduates and graduates, the Department puts itself in a position where the slightest changes in prevailing conditions require complete re-evaluation of the whole program...