Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within hours, TIME correspondents were going after the story in force. And in a year that has seen more than its share of grim news, their assignment offered a pleasant, if hectic, change of pace. A quick phone call to Rome sent Bureau Chief Jim Bell flying off to Athens. There, with the help of our stringer Mario Modiano, Bell chartered the only plane at the airport that was not controlled by either Onassis or the Greek government. He was taken for a look at Onassis' private island of Skorpios, and he is still frightened. "The pilot passed...
...White House-to-House Plan, which takes positions akin to those of Senator McCarthy and denounces Viet Nam as a "dirty war." The booklet's back page is a multiple-choice questionnaire for mailing to the New York Times, and most of those who have sent it in share Aktie's views. Diekerhof insists, however, that Aktie is not anti-American. "The McCarthyites are our friends," he says. "They represent the other America...
...acids. The task was also taken up independently by Khorana at the University of Wisconsin. Other scientists pitched in, and by 1965 the genetic code had been largely deciphered. Khorana was also able to determine that each of the three-letter words is always read separately and does not share any of its letters with another word. The words are read off continuously along a strand of DNA, much as a punched-tape message is read by a teletype machine. Among the 64 possible three-letter combinations of the four nucleotides, it was later discovered, there were several that served...
...Commerce Department reported that total private-housing starts rose to an annual rate of 1,598,000 units during September, the highest since February 1964. But apartments account for 40% of new housing so far this year, and Arthur Pomponio, president of the Apartment Association, insists that the apartment share will grow to 45% of all starts...
...Share of the Profits. Inflation plays a widely overlooked role in the swing to apartments. The rising cost of land, labor and materials (lumber prices have soared 30% this year) has driven up the total price of for-sale homes in many areas much faster than rents have climbed. Labor Department figures show that the cost of renting in the Los Angeles area, for example, has risen 12% since 1960, while the cost of home ownership has gone...