Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Passage. She loved that work, loved having "a hundred people clutching at my coat, clamoring for autographs." And loving it, she stretched her stay at the top far longer than most women ever do. She made her first powerful impression as the good-hearted flapper in the 1928 silent Our Dancing Daughters. She did musicals (she was Fred Astaire's first movie dancing partner) and a string of pictures opposite Clark Gable...
...didn't. When it was disclosed during a 1958 congressional hearing that New England Textile Manufacturer Bernard Goldfine had given Adams a number of gifts, including hotel accommodations in Boston and a vicuna coat, calls began to rise, even in the Republican Party's own ranks, for Adams' resignation. At first Eisenhower stoutly defended his aide. But it was a congressional election year, and party pros were convinced that the Adams affair was damaging their chances. Vice President Nixon, assigned to weigh party sentiment, found that virtually all Republican candidates wanted Adams out. That jibed with Nixon...
Returning to his laboratory at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham, Curtiss quickly hit on a way to keep E. coli under control. The microbes must be able to manufacture a protective membrane; without such an outer coat they would swell and burst during normal growth. To keep them from manufacturing a complete coat, Curtiss created an E. coli with a defect in a gene that makes diaminopimelic acid (DAP), an important ingredient of the membrane. The defect made the bugs dependent for their survival upon DAP supplied by scientists...
...more frustration awaited Curtiss: the mutants managed to survive and multiply even without DAP. How? Dennis Pereira, a graduate student who worked with Curtiss on the project, discovered that they were producing a sticky substance called colanic acid that held them together in the absence of their normal outer coat. By manipulating still another of the microbe's genes, Curtiss and Pereira deprived the bug of its ability to make colanic acid. That change provided an unexpected dividend; it also made the already sickly microbe extremely sensitive to ultraviolet light. Any exposure to sunlight would kill...
...night and come home with a hell of a story." From the sandy Key West beaches sprang a string of albums during the next few years. Among them: AI A, named for the access road near his home, Havana Daydreamin' and the waggishly titled A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean...