Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More to the point, there is nowhere for Mr. Lindsay to go in New York. The state's two Senate seats are held by an old friend and ally, Jacob Javits, and an unbeatable enemy, Robert F. Kennedy. The Governorship is held by Nelson Rockefeller, and he has already promised to seek reelection next year...
Lindsay, of course, may do such a fabulously great job of being Mayor that the happy populace will carry him back into office on its shoulders. But one suspects that his much-talked-about political future will be more likely to materialize if--and probably only if--his mentor Jacob Javits steps down in 1968 and gallantly offers him his Senate seat. Whether that transcends the bounds of what one politician will do for another...
...François Jacob, 45, with the Free French forces in 1940-45, at Pasteur since 1950; now professor of cellular genetics at the College de France...
...Jacob and Monod carried this line of experimentation further, discovered that a macromolecule of DNA itself does not tell the cell what substances to manufacture. Instead, it makes a partial copy of itself, called "messenger RNA," to execute its orders. The Jacob-Monod hypothesis goes on to suggest that a second or "operator" gene, also present in the DNA, may work with the basic gene in a complex feed-back mechanism. And there may even be a third type of gene...
Commenting on the hemisphere quota, Sen. Jacob K. Javits (Rep. N.Y.) said that the limit would disturb "the unique relationship that exists among the nations of the new world...I think this limitation will contribute to the impairment of better hemispheric relations in which we have been so intensely interested...