Word: code
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Childhood," Nona Ferdon found something no one else seems to have noticed in a diary that Roosevelt kept during 1902 and 1903, when he was at Harvard. In four entries, there appears a string of numbers and odd symbols. Eventually, a newspaper story produced enough hints from amateur code breakers to show that the numbers stood for vowels (1A, 2-E, etc.), and the symbols were simply unfinished letters. The surprisingly tame translation: "Spent the evening on the lawn and Alice confided in me." Next day: "Worried over Alice all night." Seven months later: "The Commonwealth sails for Europe." Nine...
...newsmen. In 1944, for instance, he consented, through an intermediary, to a telephone interview with Robert Elson, then in our Washington bureau. Hughes insisted that when he called, Elson was to identify himself by saying: "Hello, Mr. Howard Hughes. How was the weather?" Trouble was, Elson forgot the code question. This necessitated a new round of calls before Hughes was convinced that Elson was not an impostor. In 1948, when we did a cover story on Hughes, he did utter one prophetic statement about his future: "I'll make news...
Never an intellectual or a particularly brilliant conversationalist, Frederik IX reigned with easygoing informality. From the Amalienborg Palace, he often watched steamers leaving Copenhagen, and sometimes, using a flashlight, he would signal greetings in Morse code to the captain. Bicycling through the Tivoli Gardens one morning, he stopped to chat with an American tourist. "I'm a storekeeper from Chicago," said the tourist. "Who are you?" "Oh-I'm the King," replied Frederik...
...show produced by kids who want to stay on their own side of the generation gap, thank you. Virtually all the material is by children and is selected by the seven-member cast (ages nine through 13). The kids sing, dance, play games, talk in "Ubbi-Dubbi"-a catchy code language reminiscent of past generations' pig Latin-show home movies and give laconic instructions in all manner of skills. The first show featured a filmed demonstration of how to build a raft from tree limbs, leaves and an old tarpaulin. A 41-minute karate exhibition aimed at defeating bicycle...
...basic biochemical manner in which genetic materials are replicated and translated inside living tissue. Chance and Necessity reviews this information, describing the molecular structures in a fairly non-technical fashion. Monod hypothesizes how the nucleic acids might have originated as the information carrier molecule, suggests that the genetic code may have come into being purely randomly, and even suggests a mechanism for DNA-protein specificity of translation that may have originated without an RNA intermediate...