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When he was only 24, Chicago-born Author Watson helped solve the structure of the heredity-determining DNA molecule, a major feat for which he and British Scientists Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins eventually shared a Nobel prize. Now, 15 years later, he has written a highly literate day-by-day account of his experiences (the title is drawn from the spiral-staircase shape of DNA). The book will lead readers to important discoveries of their own: scientific research is not necessarily the calm, orderly process so tritely portrayed in modern legend, and scientists are all too human...
...sentences reading, "Last spring, however, Pusey unexpectedly decided to get involved. He had just received outraged letters from . . . Crick and Wilkins . . .," are at best misleading. The letters from Crick and Wilkins, which caused President Pusey's concern, arrived in the late fall of 1966. I, as director of the Press, was immediately informed; I was kept in constant touch with the correspondence; and there was nothing unexpected about the President's decision to intervene. He considered the matter one of overall University policy; I think he was right in so viewing it, though I completely and emphatically disagree with...
...other points: first, the implication that there could be a connection between the Watson incident and my resignation from Harvard is absurd, as I thought I had made clear to Mr. Joel Kramer. In the early fall of 1966, quite a bit before the President had heard from Crick or Wilkins, I told Mr. Pusey that I would have to leave before normal retirement in order to support my young children. My actual resignation came in February and I signed a contract with Atheneum at the same time; this was approximately four months before the Corporation vetoed the publication...
Last spring, however, Pusey unexpectedly decided to get involved. He had just received outraged letters from British scientists, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins protesting the forthcoming publication of James D. Watson's The Double Helix, a highly personalized narrative of the discovery of the structure of DNA. Wilkins and Crick were Watson's collaborators in the Nobel Prize-winning experiments...
...trademark of the television executive is a crick in the neck. It comes from looking back over his shoulder. For TV planners decide what they are going to do next season only by prayerfully studying the ratings of the past season: discovering what they did right but failed to sell, what they did wrong which nevertheless sold well, what rival networks did with success that they could do too. Then they decide to do more of same. A study of the 34 new shows and 58 holdovers scheduled for the new fall season shows that spies...