Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Englishwoman who presented no paper and who is, of all things, editor of a semiannual Mouse News Letter. Since the first such conference in London three years ago, the most noteworthy progress in unraveling the mysteries of human heredity has been based on the work of Geneticist Mary F. Lyon, 38. Born in Norwich, daughter of a civil servant, Mary Lyon got a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, specializing in mouse genetics. She now works at the Radiobiological Research Unit at Harwell, 50 miles west of London. Dr. Lyon became intrigued by the fact that some mice-but only females...
...years ago, Dr. Lyon proposed a revolutionary hypothesis. Every female mammal, whether mouse or woman, has two X (female) chromosomes, one each from father and mother. A male has one X and one Y. Since the X chromosome carries genes that control the production of many enzymes which in turn govern the body's chemistry, a female with two Xs should have twice as much of these enzymes as a male with one. But she doesn't. Dr. Lyon's proffered explanation: one of the female's X chromosomes is muted soon after conception and becomes...
These include dormitories for Brazilian and Swiss students in University City outside Paris, a new museum of modern French art in Tokyo, the pilgrimage church of Notre Dame de Ronchamp, and a convent for the Dominican Order at La Tourette, near Lyon...
...pipeline also promises to work an industrial transformation. Along its route four new refineries have already sprouted, two at Karlsruhe and two at Strasbourg; two more are under construction at Worth-Rhein and Mannheim north of Karlsruhe, and France is building a seventh refinery near Lyon. Moreover, work is already under way on a 156-mile extension of the pipeline from Karlsruhe into Bavaria, where at least four more refineries are planned by 1966. The Italians are also entering the area with a new pipeline from Genoa over the Alps into southern Bavaria. Before long, possibly 16 refineries...
...oddest of the suspects was the alleged ringleader, Mme. Paule Rousselot de Liffiac, 55, a pipe-smoking, low-salaried English translator at the school, the mother of six children, who was picked up at her 15-room 18th century château in a town south of Lyon. The Ecole Militaire, where Napoleon learned to soldier, is the top academy for the French military, and a hotbed of anti-Gaullism among the veterans of Algeria who think he let them down...