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...climbers from two commercially-run ventures died on top of Everest (the episode chronicled in Jon Krakauer's recent best-selling "Into Thin Air"). The leader of one of the ill-fated groups was Rob Hall, an Everest veteran and a close personal friend of Viesters. As his body froze, Hall managed to contact the IMAX team via radio. In a moment saved from kitschyness by being non-fiction, the IMAX team managed to patch him through to his pregnant wife in New Zealand and listened as he named his first-born before dying. The emotional impact of the tragedy...
...hours after it happened, the Czechoslovaks staged a haunting protest. They froze. Wherever they were, at work or in the streets, they stood still for a minute, in a silent outcry against the invaders. When news spread of what the Russians had done, the world, too, froze for an instant...
Enjoying himself, Felici went on "...Cardinalem Woj-ty-la." The crowd froze. "Chi e?"--Who's he?--Italians asked one another. Possibly an African!? Japanese tourists thought it might be a countryman. An Italian TV announcer uncertainly said, "Polacco" (the Pole), and many viewers thought he had said "Poletti," the name of Rome's vicar general...
...Kinshasa, shortly before the waves of violent rebellion that followed the liberation of the Belgian Congo. A seemingly healthy man walked into a hospital clinic to give blood for a Western-backed study of blood diseases. He walked away and was never heard from again. Doctors analyzed his sample, froze it in a test tube and forgot about it. A quarter-century later, in the mid-1980s, researchers studying the growing AIDS epidemic took a second look at the blood and discovered that it contained HIV, the virus that causes AIDS...
...whom the Nazis stole them in the 1930s. Right at the end of the show--in fact only hours before the works were to be crated for return to Vienna--Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau took the unusual and high-handed step of hitting MOMA with a subpoena that froze the disputed Schieles in New York City until a criminal investigation had determined whose property they...