Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decisions facing the next President will be whether or not to construct a "thick" defensive network of anti-ballistic missiles that might cost $40 billion. Humphrey doubts the wisdom of doing that; Nixon has expressed no firm position. Another national concern is the nuclear nonproliferation treaty-an attempt to stop other countries, including some erratic new ones in Asia and Africa, from building and brandishing atomic bombs. To prevent such possible nuclear blackmail, Humphrey urges quick U.S. ratification of the treaty. Nixon has called for a delay because of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His critics point out that Nixon...
...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...
Last week their latest college tour brought them to the University of Tennessee, Mississippi State University and Bloomsburg (Pa.) State College. By year's end, their 35-member troupe will have played enough college and town dates to gross around $1,500,000. Wherever they stop, they give completely. "We simply try to do a little more than required," says Sam. "If this means we have to sing one song for 50 minutes, then we sing the song for 50 minutes." That may seem terribly long, but when Sam & Dave pound out Hold on, I'm Comin...
lacocca did not stop there. In a speech before the Philadelphia Mortgage Bankers Association last week, he predicted that by the late 1970s "we won't be showing any particular elation over a 13 million year. That kind of market will have become routine...
Where is it. Where is General Motors? I don't know. Stop off for a cigar or two and find...