Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most, ought to be consulted in some orderly manner. No one is asking the administration to consider the proposed referendum as anything more than that, a mechanism of consultation. The outcome of the vote would be in no way binding, but would merely provide the administration one more factor to weigh in making its decision...
...Another factor in Pike's decision may well have been the suicide of his eldest son last February, giving him a burden of sorrow to bear on top of his heavy duties. Under the circumstances, it is almost certain that the House of Bishops will let Pike go. Some prelates, in fact, will be delighted to see him leave the active hierarchy, since he has persistently outraged colleagues with his unconventional theological views. Pike has expressly denied the Incarnation, the Trinity, the Virgin birth and the physical resurrection of Christ...
Still, Detroiters hunched and hoped that they could defy the statistical omens, if only they could count on the continuation of consumer confidence-the supreme factor in auto sales. Not only has that confidence been worn thin by all the jabberwocky about inflation and taxes, but since January the industry has been hit with everything but a ten-ton truck. To battle inflation, Lyndon Johnson has told consumers that it is patriotic to be parsimonious, and a lot of people are willing to heed him. When inflation winds blow, U.S. consumers do not go on a buying spree but instead...
Perhaps more original are Antoine's reflections on love, modern-style. In France, there is a movement afoot to repeal a 1920 statute prohibiting contraceptives for women. While the law itself has never been much of an inhibiting factor in France, it does give Antoine and the kids something to protest about. He sings an anguished ballad about an impoverished young wife who winds up killing her nine children and herself. He makes the same point in a lighter strain in Antoine's Lucubrations, his hottest-selling record...
...crucial factor might be a rule restricting Heps teams to 30 men. All three contending coaches will have to decide which men to leave behind, and some unusual lineups may turn up in the relays-the last two events and possibly the decisive ones...