Word: yeasting
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Lips pout, eyes smolder, bosoms and hips swell like baked goods with too much yeast. Clothes cannot contain these creatures-nor are they meant to. Bras and girdles, filmy negligees and deep-plunging necklines only point up the obvious, or pad out the underdeveloped until, literally, their cups runneth over. They are the antithesis of haute couture's slender subtleties, these fantasy models in the catalogues put out by Frederick's of Hollywood. They promise, in striking graphics, what any woman might achieve in styles by Frederick...
...model, Khorana picked a relatively simple gene from the common yeast cell; its nucleotide sequence is only 77 steps long. But those 77 steps made the building process immensely complex. Adding one lab-made nucleotide at a time in complex chemical processes, Khorana's team patiently assembled small, single-stranded segments of the 77-step chain. After each step forward, the scientists had to backtrack: every new combination had to be unraveled in order to check that the nucleotides were still in the right sequence and had not been damaged by chemical side effects. When enough strands had been...
...occurred in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, where Microbiologist Gerald Taylor had been looking for signs of lunar life by exposing moon soil to hundreds of life-enticing mixtures of gases and nutrients. After 67 days in a brew called TGY -made up of an enzyme, a sugar and a yeast extract-the soil showed no signs of life, so Taylor added the three bacteria to the mix to see if lunar soil affected their growth rate. In mixtures containing surface samples from both Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 and core samples from 12, the single-celled plants continued to reproduce...
Died. Raoul H. Fleischmann, 83, publisher and co-founder with Harold Ross of The New Yorker magazine; of a stroke; in Manhattan. A scion of the yeast family, Fleischmann seemed an unlikely partner for the mercurial Ross.Yet he was witty and urbane, and when Ross broached his plan for The New Yorker, Fleischmann joined him. The idea was for a magazine written by friends for friends and, in its first years, that was about the size of it. As the losses piled up, Fleischmann poured his entire fortune into the venture, at one point gave up virtually all hope...
...Detroit, a man named Lobsinger tells a Lions Club meeting that the ghetto riots there were "training exercises" for a Communist takeover of the U.S., and that prudent citizens should 1) arm themselves, and 2) lay in a one-month supply of beans, canned foods, brewers' yeast, pet food, evaporated milk, whisky, toilet paper, soap and "haircutting tools" for use during the coming disorders. After the meeting, a club member tells Wakefield: "Hell, on my block we're already armed...