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After Blobel, the other six went to the platform in alphabetical order. Each had an unrepentant last message. Werner Braune, who had murdered thousands of Jews and gypsies, shouted: "Kameraden, es lebe Deutschland!" (Comrades, long live Germany). Faint echoing cries came back through the thick walls from war criminals who are serving prison, terms. Cried Hans Schmidt, former adjutant at Buchenwald: "Like me you are obeying orders . . . I am dying innocent...
...sleepless flight from New York, ailing Heiress Barbara Hutton, 38, was dismayed to find the press on hand: "Oh, why can't you leave me alone? Why are you always after me? This doesn't happen even in America . . . I feel like I'm going to faint . . . Why doesn't somebody do something? Why doesn't somebody get me a chair...
Iran's frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq last week left the Parliament building, where he had been holed up for 20 days in fear of assassins, and moved back to his home. The Iranian situation, for weeks as black as oil, was getting just a shade brighter...
...long time that the photochemical action in the rods is connected in some way with a red substance, rhodopsin, which forms in the rods when the light gets dim. This is how eyes become "dark-adapted." Only when their rods are well fortified with rhodopsin can they respond to faint glimmers of light...
When the mixture is exposed to light, even very faint light, all the chemical processes go into reverse. The rhodopsin divides into retinene and opsin. The retinene reverts to vitamin A. This is just what happens when light shines into a dark-adapted eye: the rhodopsin in the rods is suddenly decomposed...