Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas. A 1952 television set plays the "Checkers" speech, the mawkish little masterpiece that saved Nixon's vice-presidential candidacy in 1952. Another television set plays the 1960 debates against John Kennedy, which may have cost Nixon the election. In a Watergate section, one can listen to three excerpts from the White House tapes and see a montage of the last day in the White House...
...tribute to his effectiveness in doing that, several freelance artists, who have produced 47 TIME cover illustrations, collaborated on a portrait of Hoglund that was presented to him at last week's seminar. Each artist interpreted a section of a photograph by William Coupon, who took the picture on this page. Clockwise, from the section of the original photograph in the upper right of the image, the artists are: Allen Hirsch, Mirko Ilic, Paul Davis, Seymour Chwast and Robert Giusti...
Richard writes a preface to each section of the book but otherwise lets his father do the recollecting. A clay-poor Georgia farm boy, Dean Rusk tells with self-effacing charm how he hustled to get an education (Davidson and Oxford) and endured World War II service as an infantry staff officer. John Kennedy surprised Rusk, and most everyone else, by making him Secretary of State, and Lyndon Johnson kept him on. The cold war convinced Rusk that free nations must hang together in a nuclear age. So when Communist forces threatened South Vietnam, the Secretary saw no alternative...
...father's sperm must carry a Y chromosome to fertilize a mother's egg, which always bears an X chromosome. But the site of the specific gene on Y that determines maleness has been elusive. Last week, though, scientists in Britain announced in Nature that they have identified a section of DNA that apparently directs the development of the testes, the male reproductive glands. The gene is being called SRY for sex-determining region...
...Ukraine, in territories largely annexed -- along with the Baltic states -- by the Soviet Union under the terms of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In republican elections last March, supporters of the Rukh movement, an umbrella organization for a host of proindependence groups, won a landslide victory in the western section. The radicals did not win a majority of seats in the republic's parliament, but their bloc of more than 100 is sizable enough to prevent the government in Kiev from getting a quorum on key votes...