Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third time since the start of the school year on Sept. 9, most of New York City's public schools were shut down-in large measure owing to the actions of one man. At the urging of its belligerent president, Albert Shanker, the United Federation of Teachers again walked out on strike; more than 50,000 teachers abruptly abandoned their classrooms in the latest battle over the city's ill-planned efforts at school decentralization...
...France's Pierre Trentin, 24, a leatherworker from Créteil, a Paris suburb, was given "not a chance" to win the 1,000-meter cycling race by his own nation's sports newspaper, L'Equipe. From a standing start, he pedaled the distance in 1 min. 3.91 sec.-averaging 35 m.p.h.-to earn himself both the gold medal and a world record...
...talent has become so intense, in fact, that one agency is offering its employees a $50 finder's fee. This prompted Negro Leader James Farmer to observe: "I don't think we ought to let them have a Negro that cheaply. I think instead we ought to start ourselves a rent-a-Negro company...
...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 to direct the cell to start or stop manufacturing a protein. Nirenberg and Khorana also found some redundancy in the code: some of the amino acids were called up by several different three-letter combinations...
...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...