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...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...
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...
There was more rain, and the rain was not good to Sinclair's Dino the Dinosaur, who somehow got a crick in the long neck he cranes-a crick that turned into a crack when the rain began to work into it. But contrary to pre-fair predictions of hideous tie-ups, fair-bound cars flowed in an untroubled, purring stream...
Watson shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Biology for his work with Francis H. C. Crick of Cambridge University, determining the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid...