Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Close after Dillon came Roving Ambassador Averell Harriman to deliver a "not optimistic but realistic" appraisal of the 14-nation Geneva conference to decide the fate of Laos-still another prime factor in the equation of cold war politics that the President must weigh. Beyond this, there was the critical issue of whether the U.S. should resume its nuclear-weapons tests. The President dispatched Negotiator Arthur H. Dean back to Geneva on a "most vital mission," that of informing the Soviet Union in no uncertain terms that it must quit stalling on test-ban negotiations or face the consequences...
...toughest hurdle is the Senate. Until Harry Truman set up procedures in 1952 to examine the qualifications of nominees, Senators were accustomed to naming friends for bench vacancies and getting near-automatic presidential approval. Some Senate veterans have still to hear the new message, and, more than any other factor, senatorial balkiness has held up the flow of nominations. In Texas, Senator Ralph Yarborough and Vice President Lyndon Johnson quarrel now over every available patronage plum; Justice hopes to resolve a potentially bitter fight by selecting Yarborough-approved candidates for two unfilled posts in Texas' southern and western districts...
...such circumstances. East Germans had the prudent alternatives of flight or putting up with it. The uncertain factor was whether, as the tension over Berlin increased, prudence would prevail...
...long face flushed with emotion, Macmillan spelled out his message in slow, measured tones. The Common Market, he said, was helping "to promote unity and stability in Europe, which is so essential a factor in the struggle for freedom and progress. I believe it is both our duty and interest to contribute toward that strength by securing the closest possible unity within Europe...
...double statement, when he says "that the will is infinite and the execution confined, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit." It is the disparity between theory and practice, reason and emotion, ideals and shortcomings, order and disorder--Greeks and Trojans. And an undermining factor is Time--"envious and calumniating time," "injurious time...