Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Survival Factor. The best but not necessarily the most truthful. "Throughout his life," Blake warns, "Benjamin Disraeli was addicted to romance and care less about facts." He was invariably the hero of his own self-created myth, and because he could write all his contem poraries under the table, his version of events tended to survive longer than anyone else's. The famous, ponderous six-volume biography by Moneypenny and Buckle, published in 1920, often fell prey to this charm beyond the grave. It also abetted the myth-later given its crudest expression in the George Arliss film...
...Blitman's day is a foregone conclusion. At three in the morning, he puts on his wrap-around sunglasses, jams The Sot Weed Factor into his pocket, and goes to the Bick. Since that first cup of coffee at the UR he has spent $4.45 on food and tips. Now he will end it all at the Bick...
...next weekend. Gary Walters and Chris Thomforde, the two key Tiger performers, fouled out, and John Haarlow was sidelined by a sprained ankle. That meant that substitutes who had seen action only against Ivy tailenders were left to battle the Tar Heels in a tense overtime. The other main factor in the 78-70 U.N.C. win was foul shooting: Princeton was a miserable 10 for 21; North Carolina...
...anything but paperback, he is usually dead, or his books have come to be considered classics-or both. John Earth, 36, is alive, and none of his books have yet reached the classical shelf. He has written four novels-The Floating Opera, End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor and Giles Goat-Boy. The first three together sold fewer than 8,000 copies. Goat-Boy, the only one that can be called a popular success, sold about 50,000 and showed up briefly on the bestseller lists. Despite this inconclusive reception, The Sot-Weed Factor has now been republished...
...semi-annual report on U.S. foreign-currency operations, Coombs explained that the largest factor in sterling's recovery has been "the underlying improvement" in Britain's pound-threatening balance-of-payments deficit. Though the British ran a deficit for the whole of 1966 (probably between $420 million and $560 million), rising exports produced a balance-of-payments surplus during the final three months of the year. This year, says a forecast from London's National Institute for Economic and Social Research, Britain should show an impressive $490 million surplus, its first since...