Word: jacobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY '48 formally announced the huge Bedford-Stuyvesant program at a mass meeting in P.S. 305. It was a gala occasion, featuring Senator Jacob Javits, Rep. Emanuel Celler, Mayor John Lindsay, Boston's Redevelopment Administrator Edward J.Logue, and a host of other speakers who rambled on long after much of the audience had left...
...possible answer was provided in 1961, when French Biologists Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod hypothesized that only a few genes in any cell were active in controlling the production of enzymes that gave the cell its characteristics. The remaining genes, they proposed, were deactivated -turned off by mysterious represser substances produced by other genes. Thus, the genes that are active in a hair cell may be turned off in a liver cell, where a different combination of genes is active...
Lactose Tracer. Although the brilliant concept of Jacob and Monod had become generally accepted by 1965, when it helped to win for them the Nobel Prize in Medicine, no one had ever been able to provide direct laboratory proof that their concept was correct. Now the evidence has begun to come in. Harvard University scientists have succeeded in isolating and analyzing two of the Hitherto theoretical substances that repress gene activity...
Inasmuch as Clark's companions included not only New York's liberal Senators, Democrat Robert Kennedy and Republican Jacob Javits, but also California's conservative Republican George Murphy, the Governor's description bordered on the ludicrous. Murphy, for one, found nothing to laugh about during a daylong tour of the Delta's impoverished Negro communities. Said he, visibly moved by what he had seen: "I didn't know we'd be dealing with starving people." Such testimony-and such obvious need-will unquestionably save most poverty programs. Whether it will save...
...Even before the trucking crisis, Congress was apprehensive. Colorado's Republican Senator Peter H. Dominick criticized President Johnson for scheduling a trip to South America this week, when "our fundamental supply lines are about to be threatened by a strike." And two Republican Senators, New York's Jacob Javits and California's Thomas H. Kuchel, proposed a bill that would allow the Government to seek through the courts authority to keep struck industries operating in order "to protect the public health and safety...