Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Hans Selye was a precocious 18-year-old medical student in Prague, a professor trotted out a succession of patients who all looked and felt ill, had assorted aches and pains, usually with some fever and local swelling or inflammation. The trouble, the professor explained, was that these patients had not yet developed any of the few specific symptoms by which he could pinpoint just what particular disease each suffered from. To the bright-eyed Selye, this was only half the story at best: in his view, all the patients already suffered from a state of "just being sick...
...Olympic Village, athletes, coaches and trainers tried to put into practice the Olympic notion that the games are above national rivalries. They talked with their opponents in sign language at the free hot-chocolate bars. In bustling Melbourne itself, bars stayed crowded, noisy and wet, despite a local law that shut off the taps at 6 p.m. sharp. Scalpers hustled $5 and $7 tickets for as much as $40, and Aussies proved themselves as sports fans by queueing up in the wind and rain, even for seats at practice sessions...
...their search for a new telescope site, researchers crisscrossed the East examining and rejecting 29 different locations. They were looking for a valley surrounded by mountains which would serve as a shield against local radio noise. They also wanted a location far enough south so that the telescope's unsheltered antenna would not be exposed to wind, snow and ice. Green Bank filled the bill admirably. Radio noise in the valley was only a thousandth of the noise at the Naval Research Laboratory radio telescope in Washington. Moreover, Green Bank was distinguished by the fact that no commercial aircraft...
...least partly to blame. Royal public relations are handled through a Press Secretariat whose tight-lipped refusal to discuss even a Balmoral barbecue forces newsmen to patch up stories from gossip, invention and half-truth. Important royal events outside the palace, complain reporters, are usually handled by bumbling local officials. Only when newsmen threatened to boycott Princess Margaret's recent African tour in mid-trip was she allowed to make news by mingling with the natives, thus realize the tour's main aim: to publicize Britain's ties with her East African territories...
...free buttons, pins, banners and certificates. After reading four books, a pupil gets a plastic membership button. Six more books bring a bronze-coated honor pin, and eight more bring the gold-plated life membership button. L.C.A. makes no attempt to dictate what books are to be read, lets local teachers and librarians improvise on the basic program as they wish. Examples of how local chapters work...