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"The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA" ~ James D. Watson (Part 2 of 2)

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Part 2 (the last) Part 1 - Here* 17. LINUS, however, was blocked from descending on London. The State Department did not want troublemakers like Pauling wandering about the globe saying nasty things about the politics of its onetime investment bankers who held back the hordes of godless Reds. Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence. Acheson's position was harassed enough without ling McCarthy the opportunity to announce that our government let radicals protected by U.S. passports set ck the American way of life. Francis and I were already in London when the scan I reached the Royal Society. The reaction was one of almost complete disbelief. It was far more reassuring to go on imagining that Linus had taken ill on the plane to New York. The failure to let one of the world's leading scientists attend a completely nonpolitical meeting would have been expected from the Russians. A first-rate Russian m...