Word: montreux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
McKusick also directs the Human Genome Organization (known informally as "Victor's HuGO"), a group formed last September in Montreux, Switzerland, by 42 scientists representing 17 nations. "The U.N. of gene mapping," as McKusick describes it, plans to open three data-collection and -distribution sites, one each in Japan, North America and Europe...
...Arms Control Association, a Washington-based research and lobbying group, denounced the findings as "largely stale claims." Stale indeed may have been the allegation that the Soviets are sending aircraft carriers through the Turkish straits in defiance of the 1936 Montreux Convention, which the U.S. did not sign...
DIED. A.J. Cronin, 84, Scottish physician turned author whose bestselling novels include Hatter's Castle (1931), The Citadel (1937) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1941); of acute bronchitis; near Montreux, Switzerland...