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Short Notices THE DOUBLE HELIX by James D. Watson. 226 pages. Atheneum...
...level error by brilliant Chemist Linus Pauling that temporarily threw him off course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow's "two cultures," but certainly narrows...
...Double Helix affair is past history, but television coverage is still a live issue. Pusey and the Deans should decide to leave the campus as open to educational television as it is to recruiters...
...view is contrary to the principles of the University." This disposition to avoid marginally associating the University with a controversial view was what we found objectionable in the decision of Pusey and the Corporation not to let the Harvard University Press publish J. D. Watson's The Double Helix. And we earlier objected to the University's refusal to allow WGBH to cover a Vietnam teach-in in January...
...front-page news story in Tuesday's CRIMSON [on 'The Double Helix'] is reasonably accurate, although I might complain of a couple of direct quotations made out of context. Nor can I object in general to the tenor of the editorial which appears in Wednesday's CRIMSON. But the editorial is in some parts definitely unfair and inaccurate...