Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aesculapius over its main entrance. One-third or more of its 1,350 inmates are in for crimes involving violence-from robbery to rape and murder. Most of the rest are burglars, bad-check artists, or men caught up in the narcotics racket. Alcoholism is the commonest complicating factor, and a prison branch of A.A. offers help. By administrative fiat, but for no good psychiatric reason, all homosexuals rated as "effeminate" or "aggressive" are housed in a single cell block. These are among the least hopeful cases...
...risk of detection. And by going to a lot of expense, the U.S.S.R. could carry out tests much bigger than 19 kilotons without much risk. Under the "big-hole" theory worked out by U.S. scientists, an explosion in a very large, spherical underground chamber would be muffled by a factor of as much as 300 to 1, so that a 100-kiloton explosion would set up no stronger a tremor than an unmuffled one-third kiloton explosion, and would thus go entirely undetected. Excavating a big-enough hole half-a-mile underground would be exceedingly costly, but perhaps worthwhile...
...rying, or curling up in the fetal position. He may feel unnaturally hot or cold, unduly sensitive to sound, tingling or numb, sexually aroused-or in severe pain. The pain, they believe, is often associated with the repressed memory of some injurious childhood experience, so it is an important factor in the psychotherapy...
...Kennedy's greatest pile-up of votes occurred, predictably, in the industrialized, Democratic and Catholic cities. Jacqueline Kennedy's French blood may have been a factor in the heavy vote for her husband by New Hampshire's 98,000 French Canadian citizens...
...major factors that have helped upset earlier estimates of the 1960 boom are the weather and the decline in the stock market. Said Virgil Martin, president of Chicago's Carson Pirie Scott & Co.: "The weather has been violently bad, and everybody has been disturbed psychologically by the stock market dip. Even people who are not in the market are affected. It's the headlines." In the New York area, severe snowstorms cut heavily into department stores' sales, forced them down 25% for the week ended March 5. Blizzards caused sales to drop 25% in St. Louis...