Word: master
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, Beck has learnt his blucs from B.B. King and like the great master he loves to accumulate tension until a song builds up to such a pressure as to appear to burst apart from within...
Captain Paddy, an Irishman who has spent 22 of his 54 years in Africa, is the unit's master mechanic. Just before Port Harcourt fell to the federals early last summer, he scrounged up a convoy of trucks and liberated-under fire -the entire workshop of the Shell-B.P. refinery there. When Aba had to be evacuated last month for lack of ammo, Paddy was one of the last men out, a machine gun in one hand, a demijohn of wine in the other. Captain Armand, a former French paratrooper and veteran of Algeria, sports a Yul Brynner...
...Holley studied both the genetic code and its function in building proteins by analyzing "transfer RNA," a form of ribonucleic acid. RNA collects amino acids floating in the cell and, like a tug towing a barge, pulls them to an assembly site where, in the sequence dictated by the master DNA molecule, they are combined into the appropriate protein. Holley worked out the complete structure of a transfer RNA molecule, demonstrating how it attaches to a particular amino acid and brings it to the growing protein chain at the proper time and place...
...Master's Voice. RCA continues to display the technological prowess that characterized its earlier years. The company dominates the color-TV market, largely because of a $150 million investment back in the 1950s in a color system that has since been adopted throughout the U.S. An equally ambitious venture in the computer field, notably the company's Spectra 70 series, looks like a winner after a shaky start. NBC meanwhile, goes on setting one new sales record after another-even though it still ranks slightly behind CBS in the TV viewer ratings...
Once lightly regarded as being merely the boss's son, Bob Sarnoff is now speaking with the master's voice. RCA's president for the past three years and its chief executive officer since last Jan. 1, he has made the company's marketing operations more efficient, reshuffled its management hierarchy and trimmed production and inventories to help combat eroding profit margins. His efforts have paid off. Last year RCA showed profits of $147.5 million on sales of $3 billion. Both figures are running higher...