Linus Pauling never got to London. He was held up at the airport. Due to his political views, opposing Senator McCarthy, who led the American Senate's investigation (ultimately deemed unconstitutional) of communism in the United States, Pauling was not permitted to travel to England to speak at the scientific conference. The English scientists were appalled that the United States would take this action. The conference was, overall, uneventful. Watson found out from Maurice that King's lab had not used the molds that the Cambridge lab had lent them for working on building a structural model of DNA......
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