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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several months, wall posters in China's capital have been attacking Peking Mayor Wu Teh-most significantly as the RAT'S TAIL OF THE GANG OF FOUR. That menacing epithet suggested that the mayor would soon follow Chiang Ch'ing, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chopping Off the Rat's Tail | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...last perusal of the notices before I sign off...no one interesting is coming to Passim. I can't find any info on the Rat (but go anyway; it's bound to be an experience). Paul's Mall is dead. Sigh...

Author: By Laura J. Levine, | Title: Run to the Dead! | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

Friday, October 20: Strat's Rat in the Sala MIT Student Center. 8:30-1, MIT or Wellesley ID required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be done at? | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

Because of this contamination, when the scientists tried to produce the genetic code for human insulin, they wound up with the code for rat insulin instead. The scientists have already successfully cloned rat insulin...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Sorry, It Sort of Leaked | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

Gilbert and the scientists who accompanied him say the mix-up occurred because a piece of dry rat DNA that was stuck on a glass tube or gel plate apparently mixed with the human genetic material they isolated in preparation for their experiments in England...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: Sorry, It Sort of Leaked | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

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