Word: mosquito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through her study of antigens, Suzanne Brown, 16, is trying to develop in mice an immunity to the irritation of mosquito bites. Other students are studying the tolerance of fresh-water fish for salt, the effect of light on the fighting mood of chameleons, and ways to induce toads to lay their eggs out of season. One boy, having noticed that some dead fish do not pollute the water in tanks that contain a certain type of algae, now thinks he is on the road to a discovery. "I know there is an antibiotic property in the algae," says...
...Mosquito Coast of Nicaragua, a U.S. independent firm has had as many as 200 men at work, and planned to bring in an offshore drilling barge. Houston's John W. Mecom and three associates were drilling a pair of exploratory wells in Honduras. In Guatemala, where 29 U.S. companies bid for exploration rights after the government of President Carlos Castillo Armas passed what oilmen called a "tough but workable" law, the process of sorting out overlapping concessions was going on, but no drilling had yet begun...
...bold little mosquito bites the fair breast of her who consumes my heart...
...staples as "Who Put the Heat on Tab Hunter?" and "The Tragedy of Ava Gardner." The new magazine is the brain child of two Hollywood pressagents, gets its disks from Rainbo Records, whose president, Jack Brown, ran a World War II experimental project for the U.S. Navy to combat mosquito pollution by wooing the insects with recorded mosquito mating sounds. In its second issue Hear plans to woo fans with the breathy, come-hither voice of Marilyn Monroe, who will chat "about her romances . . . and all sorts of things...
...invasion of southern France. They ran up against the malaria that infested the coastal marshes and that throughout history has kept invaders back and the islanders down. Thereafter, by one of the most intensive campaigns ever waged against malaria, U.S. and Italian DDT teams banished the anopheles mosquito that had helped stunt the development of a people long accounted the smallest of Italians. Since 1950 there has not been a single new case of malaria in Sardinia...