Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...held down the cost of living at great cost to himself. "We went through 1967 without any miracles," the President says. "I prefer a sure and measured success." Maybe some miracles are needed. Brazil should be taking off economically; it is barely holding its own. Education is a shambles: half of the population remains illiterate, and there is no room at the university for two of every three students who pass the entrance exam. Workers who earn only $40 a month must spend a fourth of that on bus fares to get to their jobs...
...vision of woman as the sexual aggressor. The secretary is pallidly but visibly related to the praying-mantis wife in The Homecoming. The character of Sisson was almost perfectly described by Cyril Connolly in The Unquiet Grave when he wrote: "A puritan is incomplete because he excludes that half of himself of which he is afraid, and so the deeper he imprisons himself in his fastidiousness, the more difficulty he has in finding a woman who is brave enough to simulate the vulgarity by which he can be released...
...Nirenberg, then an obscure young scientist at the National Institutes of Health, provided the biological Rosetta stone. After synthesizing a single helix with half-stairs that were the equivalent of only one of DNA's nucleotides-adenine (A)-he added it to a solution containing all 20 amino acids. Only one protein was produced in the solution. It consisted entirely of a chain of amino-acid molecules called phenylalanine. Thus, Nirenberg concluded, a three-letter code word made up of adenine nucleotides (AAA) was nature's instruction to the cell to use phenylalanine in building a protein...
Died. Lee Tracy, 70, veteran actor, who came to epitomize the fast-talking, wisecracking newsman during a career that spanned nearly half a century; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. After a successful start in 1928 as a brash reporter in Broadway's The Front Page, Tracy played variations on the same role in Clear All Wires (1933) and Power of the Press (1943). He reached the top in 1964, when he played the aging ex-President in The Best...
...only real suspense in If He Hollers, Let Him Go, which calls itself a thriller, is waiting for the comely costar, Negro Singer Barbara McNair, to take her clothes off. Since she doffs her duds during the first half-hour, voyeurs can feel free to leave immediately afterward. There is nothing more for them-or anyone else, really...