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Working with nests of quail eggs, Cambridge University Research Psychologist Margaret Vince used sensitive instruments to record the movements and sounds of quail embryos during the last three days of their incubation period. Some twelve to 18 hours before hatching, she discovered, the eggs began to emit faint and intermittent clicks in time with the breathing of the embryo. The clicking gradually became louder and more regular, drowning out the sound of breathing, until it suddenly stopped only minutes before the eggs hatched...
While extending their sympathies to the struck papers in editorials, the other New York dailies-the Times, Daily News and Post-continued to publish. With no competition in the afternoon, the Post increased its press run from 400,000 to 600,000. Meanwhile, rumors spread that the embryo World Journal Tribune might collapse in the face of adamant union demands. "We don't intend to go out of business," insisted Matt Meyer, "and we're not going to." The papers' employees were not so sure. With 2,000 on the dismissal list, even those who were...
...first half of 1965. Last March a badly slipping Revue published what purported to be a sensational interview with Nikita Khrushchev in retirement, but the interview was judged to be a phony. Last June, upon learning that Der Stern was about to run some striking photos of a developing embryo taken by Swedish Photographer Lennart Nilsson (that also ran in LIFE), Revue faked an embryo sequence of its own. It drew a blast from Stern: "They borrowed textbook photos, and an institute lent them a fetus preserved in alcohol, and-the pen hesitates to put it down-the whole thing...
...society dominated by the idea of aristocracy, this child of the slums was universally recognized as a great man in embryo. His mind was brilliant and his character founded on the Rock of Ages-he was a devout adherent of the Sandemanians, a gentle sect of fundamentalists. He looked like a sawed-off Lincoln, and like Lincoln he was earthy, realistic, modest. His pursuit of science was essentially a search for God. "These," he once said of the physical laws, "are the glimmerings we have of the second causes by which the one Great Cause works his wonders and governs...
...Peace. When a massive novel is adapted for the stage, what the playgoer almost invariably sees is the skeleton of the book and the embryo of a play. A sense of events and characters killed for lack of space, of people and relationships underdeveloped for lack of time is present in this Phoenix Theater presentation of the Tolstoy classic, but it has an evocative life that refuses to be smothered. Thanks to Ellis Rabb's inventive direction, a substantial fraction of the surge, scope and thematic intention of the novel comes over the footlights...