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...Biologist Dr. James Watson, successfully postulated the infinitely complex molecular structure of DNA, which carries the determining genetic code from generation to generation. Tall, worldly and vaguely Edwardian, Crick is an avowed atheist who once resigned a Cambridge fellowship when his college announced plans to build a chapel. (''Why should I support the propagation of an error?") He is a brilliant, nonstop talker, was trained as a crystallographer before switching to biology. Crick's Who's Who biography lists his recreation as: "Conversation, especially with pretty women...
Protesting cumpulsory chapel attendance, 500 of Bowdoin College's 800 students wedged themselves into the college chapel early this week. The chapel's seating capacity...
...demonstration was apparently touched off by a notice from the dean of students, A. Leroy Greason, Jr. Greason had announced that a student's failure to attend chapel the required number of times during the semester would be "adequate basis for any later action...
Jimson then organizes a community mural of the Last Judgment on the wall of a condemned chapel, and himself demolishes it with a bulldozer to spare the wreckers the ignominy, as he explains it, of "destroying a national monument." In the end, he cuts his houseboat adrift, and idles down the Thames dreaming of something even more spectacular perhaps on the side of a battleship...
...rotating dairy crew milks the school's 70 cows, meets the other boarders at 7:30 breakfast. After tidying their rooms, the youngsters attend chapel, join the day students in regular classwork until midafternoon. Then the boarders get cracking again. The boys polish floors, mow lawns, repair buildings, haul garbage, plow the fields. Girls swarm into the boys' dormitory with mops and pails, cook dinner using produce from the school's 350-acre truck garden. After dinner: study hall, lights out by 10:30 at the latest. Saturday morning is for more work; Sunday hikes exercise those...