Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under certain specifically detailed emergency conditions, the Looking Glass plane would become a crucial factor in U.S. strategy by operating as a relay station that would send messages from superior command stations on the ground to SAC bombers and missile-launching sites. If all or most ground commands were wiped out, the AEAO would take over the direction of a U.S. thermonuclear retaliation. Through a multiple-checked series of authentications, he would break open a locked "red box" and issue the "Go" orders to missile sites and bomber bases that would send nuclear warheads toward preselected targets. Says one AEAO...
...Except for chimpanzees, animals do not catch human colds. Cats get dreadful colds, and some from rhinoviruses-"but cat rhinoviruses, not human ones." > Chilling has little if anything to do with a person's developing a cold. Presumably resistance to the virus is a factor, but how it works is not known. > Some colds are not catching at all, and no one knows how they get started. Others are most catching in the early stages (almost the only item of folklore confirmed by scientific research). They are spread by sneezing and coughing, though a handkerchief promptly and properly used...
...generations-old campus question of how horseplay escalates into homicide, high spirits degenerate into low tragedy. How, for instance, did the dead freshman, an unobtrusive nephew of a U.T. English instructor, and his friends come under the gun? Most riot-weary authorities cite mob psychology as a prime factor. "When people feel they're lost in a crowd," notes San Francisco State College Dean Ferd Reddell, "they always grow braver. That's why one way to handle them during a mob scene is to call them by name and bring them back to the realization of their individuality...
...Hugo Black rejected Texas' claim as the state having the most "contacts" with the debt. To follow that rule would saddle the court with endless case-by-case litigation, said Black. New Jersey's claim as the debtor's domicile would "too greatly exalt a minor factor," while Pennsylvania's main-office argument might force the court to tot up the space or staff in one branch office after another...
...formal stand on fraternity rules. Formal policies have been adopted by 63 percent of the colleges offering a doctorate degree; 51 percent of those granting a master's degree, and 33 percent of those giving only a bachelor's degree. Size of the student body is also an important factor in the adoption of affirmative college policies. Only 33 percent of responding schools with less than 1,000 students have such a policy, as compared with 80 percent of those with more than 10,000 enrollment...