Word: franco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cytoplasm (the protoplasm surrounding the cell nucleus) between the Paris and Hamburg strains of mosquitoes. Because of this difference, the egg cells of the females of one strain could not accept the sperm cells from males of the other strain, causing the female to lay infertile eggs. This Franco-German incompatibility was not unique. In succeeding years, Laven discovered 19 additional strains of common mosquitoes that could not produce offspring when mated with other strains...
...useful device in reconstructing history, particularly when it is used to correct the astigmatism of adulation that most contemporary historians bring to bear on their subjects. George Washington's ivory false teeth; Gladstone's predilection for reforming London streetwalkers; Lenin's fondness for a Franco-Russian woman during his pre-Revolution exile in Paris: all these trivial addenda lend a sense of humanity to the men who made history and help relate them to the banality of history as it is lived. Yet Jim Bishop, chrome-plated chronicler of "days" in the lives of Christ and Kennedy...
...then, however, the Franco-British SST Concorde should be setting commercial aviation records. A full-scale mock-up of the droop-snoot plane was a big attention-getter at the air show. Larger than the Russian TU-144 SST and carrying about half as many passengers as the American version, the Concorde is scheduled to make its first flight on Feb. 28, 1968. The estimated price of the plane has already jumped from $7,000,000 to $21 million. Even so, the partners hope that when the 1,450-m.p.h. Concorde goes into commercial use in 1971, it will snare...
Secrecy. Disclosure of Spain's contract with null marked the end of 21 years of secret and almost byzantine negotiations. For as soon as Spanish geologists found the rich phosphate vein back in 1963, Generalissimo Franco's ministers forbade publication of any hint of the discovery. They had good reason for their reticence. The political situation in northern Africa has long been touchy: both Morocco and Mauritania claim the Spanish Sahara. Occasionally, they have gone so far as to threaten to back up their claims with force. Moreover, Spain has been under mounting pressure...
...Giants. As weaker operators began to fall out during tortuous negotiations, a consortium consisting of Armour & Co., Continental Oil, and Loeb, Rhoades & Co., and headed by former Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, soon emerged as the leading contender. Anderson was a steady visitor to Spain, even won an audience with Franco. Then, last November, Continental Oil pulled out of the Anderson consortium, and all its hopes were wrecked. A new group, including Gulf Oil, W.R. Grace, Texaco, and Standard Oil of Calif., entered the race with a combined bid. I.M.C. was left to fight it out with the quartet of giants...