Word: publishers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Worse, from Mrs. Kennedy's view, was soon to come. A syndicated Washington columnist burst into print with the report that Annemarie was 1) making a pilot film for TV, 2) planning to open a gourmet club in a Manhattan townhouse, and 3) about to publish a cookbook. The column also reported that, presumably because of Annemarie's dietary meals, Jackie had slimmed down from a size 12 to a size 8 dress...
...most important result of the Caucus--the formation of a committee to keep this new voice alive. Representatives from about 25 institutions met to form a Cambridge-based Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, chaired by Professor John R. Watt, who teaches Chinese history at MIT. The Committee will publish a news-letter, draw up a statement commenting on the Tuxedo Park Statement (a "moderate" position paper by 14 prominent scholars), disseminate information to Congress, and generally "start publicizing the growing concern over Asian affairs and make ourselves known as consultants on current Assian issues...
Watson said that he had originally entitled his book Honest Jim, but that the Harvard Press, which was at that time slated to publish the book, didn't like it. He then changed the title to Base Pairs, Watson said, but co-discoverer Crick wouldn't stand for that. He finally settled on The Double Helix...
Referring to the Harvard Corporation's controversial veto of the Harvard Press decision to publish his book, Watson said, "Harvard's lawyers said that Francis [Crick] might not like the book. They never came out and said that it was libelous; they just said that Crick might read it and be unhappy...
University Press refused to publish The Double Helix, Watson's highly personal account of the discovery...