Word: calle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...individualist for Foggy Bottom, the odds favor Douglas Dillon, who would have been Secretary of State in 1960 had Nixon won. Scranton might then become Ambassador to the United Nations. McGeorge Bundy, a Republican who served both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was once considered for State, but his call for a bombing halt hurt his chances because Nixon's camp felt that he was lifting a trial balloon for Lyndon Johnson...
Listening to former Secretary of State Dean Acheson uphold the Joint Chiefs' call for an invasion, Bobby reacted in a way that foreshadowed his later dissent on the Viet Nam war. "Whatever military reasons he and others could marshal," he recalls, "they were nevertheless, in the last analysis, advocating a surprise attack by a very large nation against a very small one. This, I said, could not be undertaken by the U.S. if we were to maintain our moral position at home and around the globe. Our struggle against Communism throughout the world was far more than physical survival...
...They call me Tricky Dickie," he says, cheeks puffed out and slitty eyes shifting back and forth like a street-corner con artist. "But I can't imagine why. I've got 70% of the popular vote. I've got two good arms, two good legs and two good faces-and I intend to take them to the public...
...night, I say 'Whoopee!' And I want to say I'm proud as Punch to be running for the presidency of the United States! Under Lyndon Johnson I ran for other things-coffee, sandwiches and cigarettes. Nobody's going to call me 'Minnesota Fats' any more. But I could never turn my back on Lyndon Johnson. A year ago, we exchanged friendship rings. He wears his on his left forefinger, and I wear mine proudly in my nose...
Three-Letter Words. It was Watson and Crick who clarified the nature of the genetic code. They demonstrated that each stair of the double helix consists of a pair of chemical compounds called nucleotides. There are only four different kinds of nucleotides in DNA, but the order in which they appear along the length of the helix varies considerably, suggesting that they are arranged in a coded sequence. To be able to call up one of the 20 different amino acids using only four nucleotide "letters," scientists decided, each genetic code "word" has to be three letters long...