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...cracker barrel logic he picked up as a farmer in his native California. "There is no substitute for simplicity," and "if you can learn to work with mules you can learn to work with men" he says with a perfectly straight face. This simple approach has become the nucleus of "his brand" of public relations...
...presence of so many sophomores on the team can explain most of the mistakes, and it is certainly good to allow such promising players at Pete Kelley, Denny Lynch, and Gene Augustine to get as much experience as possible. They will have to be the nucleus of the team for several years to come...
Gaining. The spectacle of one pro-Communist captain with a nucleus of only 300 paratroopers standing off a 29,000-man army nurtured and trained by the U.S. was bad enough. But Western diplomats in Laos feared that Kong Le was actually gaining strength, picking up new recruits in the villages as well as seasoned units of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao guerrilla movement. The government of Premier Boun Oum was even talking of moving south out of Vientiane, which was won from Kong Le just last month...
...until they evaporate. When he carefully cooled small droplets of very pure water, they did not turn to ice until the temperature fell below - 42° F. This proved, as had been suspected, that ice crystals seldom, if ever, form in moderately cold clouds unless some solid nucleus is present to start the process...
When a cell reproduces by division, the DNA molecules in its nucleus have two jobs. First they must make perfect duplicates of themselves. Then they must control the formation of enzymes (protein catalysts) that will generate the other proteins that the cell needs to grow bigger and split...