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...Stevens' attributes are beyond the understanding of actors or anyone else. One is his capacity for putting anyone on the defensive at once by tightening his lips, removing all expression from his face and refusing to utter a word. Known to his friends as "the chill," it has been triumphantly successful at making studio executives behave...
...black, chill night in Berlin last week foreign correspondents were jounced out of their sleep by the clamorous ringing of their telephones. When each answered, he was startled to hear an official voice from the Foreign Office insist that there was no revolution in Germany, either actual or likely...
...days before Christmas, in a chill grey dawn, a German firing squad lined up on the grounds of France's fort, Vincennes. Here the French had executed famed spies Mata Hari and Bolo Pasha in World War I. But the German guns barked at no enemy spies. Executed were four German officers (two colonels, a major, one of undesignated rank). Since Dec. 1 the Germans had found it necessary to shoot 100 of their soldiers for mutiny. It would take a long time for disaffection to weaken the mighty German Army, but the spirit was spreading...
...spread quickly. Down to the docks, as close as armed guards would let them approach, rushed hundreds of eager, worried men and women: parents whose sons had been in the battle of Pearl Harbor, relatives of families left stranded in Hawaii when the attack came. They stood in the chill drizzle, waiting...
...anesthetized female rabbits so they would lie still and not suffer; then he applied ice packs on their flanks directly over their Fallopian tubes. The rabbits' temperatures, normally about 103.5° F., dropped to from 92.5° to 64.4° F., but they all recovered easily from the chill.† Afterward, at various intervals, Shapiro removed the cold-fertilized ova from the rabbits, found some of them well along toward embryonic development. If he learns why & how mere cold can fertilize a mammalian egg, Shapiro may thereby explain how the meeting of spermatozoan and ovum forms the beginning...