Word: equilibriums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With such aids, and by installing an 8-ft. telescoping handrail between Gemini and Agena while the crafts were docked, Aldrin was able to maintain his equilibrium. With frequent two-minute rests, he first moved forward to the Agena and secured its 100-ft. tether to Gemini's docking bar, an assignment that had proved exasperating and difficult for unanchored Gemini 11 Astronaut Richard Gordon...
...rules of the library are highly experimental, the RGA felt, and will take a while to work themselves into an equilibrium...
...Frenchman first-but with a pan-European difference. As he said during his election campaign last year: "This country, this France which has bandaged her wounds, and God knows they were serious; this France which is regaining her power; ah, yes, she is devoting herself to establishing an equilibrium in the world. In brief, we are playing our role, pursuing a vocation which has been ours for centuries...
While U.S. forces may eventually be able to leave Europe, that day is not imminent simply because the Seventh Army is there, quite aside from NATO, to face and help offset Russia's 20 divisions in East Germany. To preserve equilibrium, any drastic diminution of American strength would have to be balanced by a corresponding increase in European strength. But prosperous Europe shows few signs of wanting to shoulder the burden; West Germany, for example, considers any further expansion of the Bundeswehr out of the question. Still, the Seventh Army is a political tool as well as a military...
...Asia, however, is political stability and its sine qua non: a sense of belonging to a nation. The Thais have both. Though various ruling officers have come and gone since a 1932 coup gently displaced the King as absolute ruler, Kings and soldiers have combined, in a typical Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced by the nation's pervasive Buddhism. In Buddhist theology...