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Gates' guard dogs snarled as we approached, and so did the crack team of Justice Department arsonists who were standing by, ready to set the whole restaurant on fire at the slightest hint of danger.
McDavid's further description of the origins of the New York Academy of Sciences [NYAS] conference are a curate's egg of fact: the facts remain as recorded (I trust) in the files of the NYAS, to wit: In the mid 1960s, as a member of the NYAS (and, as far as I know, the only person associated with the conference who was a member before, during, and after it), I approached the Executive Director of the NYAS, Eunice Thomas Miner, suggesting a conference on lexicography in English.
Britain, which was also approached, had refused to help, it said.
As Random House was unable to fund such research, I approached someone I knew at Air Force Intelligence, at Griffiss Air Force Base, in Rome, New York, with my proposal, suggesting that such an analysis would yield useful results for cryptanalytical research.
We approached the problem of gene identification by using a combination of experimental and in silico techniques.