Word: duran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recently sold 45% of it to Chrysler for $19 million. Onetime Bank Clerk Jose Maria Aristrain, 48, started a scrap-iron business as a sideline, was so successful that he opened foundries, now operates plants that turn out 60,000 tons of steel a year. At 43, Engineer Pedro Duran is the aggressive president of the country's principal ship and locomotive building firm...
Last month in a provincial by-election, Allende's forces administered a crushing defeat to the right-of-center, three-party Democratic front that brought President Alessandri to power in 1958. As a result, the front split wide open and its candidate, Julio Duran, 46, leader of the middle-road Radical Party, resigned from the race in tears. To keep his own party from dissolving, Duran has now decided to re-enter the campaign on the Radical ticket alone. But the best he can hope for is enough votes to wield a balance of power in a close election...
...Latin America. In Curicó, Allende's candidate for Congress won with 39% of the vote. Durán's man got only 31%, and the Christian Democrat came on strong with 27%. Indicative or not, the results sent shock waves through the Democratic Front, prompted Duran's resignation, and led to speculation that a new non-Communist coalition may be formed, with able, eloquent Christian Democrat Frei at its head...
Triggering mechanisms are still more obscure. Stanford University's Radiologist Henry Kaplan has shown that if he gives a dose of X rays to seemingly virus-free mice, they develop cancers containing virus particles. The late Dr. Francisco Duran-Reynals argued that chemicals and viruses combine to cause cancer. Now many laboratories are confirming his basic thesis: mice painted with a low dose of a known carcinogen (cancer-causing chemical) get no tumors, and neither do those exposed only to viruses; but if mice get both the virus and minute amounts of the chemical, many of them soon develop...