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...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...
Atlantic Richfield and Humble decided to try one more time at a spot near the Arctic Ocean at Prudhoe Bay. Working in -60° weather that snapped wrenches like matchsticks and froze the drilling equipment whenever work stopped, Atlantic as the working partner of the two brought in oil. The industry and the state of Alaska haven't been the same since. Competing companies who were about to pull out of the North Slope are renewing their efforts. The state government is talking about constructing a railroad and highway from Fairbanks, 390 miles away, to the North Slope fields...
...Viet Nam, Russian diplomats long described their dealings with the U.S. as "frozen." The Paris peace talks helped to warm things up a few degrees. Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia would once again seriously chill the diplomatic atmosphere. It was Russian tanks in Budapest, in fact, that abruptly froze a momentary thaw in 1956. The difficult balance between deep-freeze and detente can be frustrating, says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, since it offers none of "the clarities of either unambiguous war or unalloyed peace." But, troubling as the ambiguities of Honolulu and Prague may be, they are obviously...
...summer semester and most of the fall, was assured of a degree. Why not drop out? One could always come back to school, if one lived. Besides, Harvard wasn't Harvard anymore. As soon as undergraduates left, the Army and Navy moved men in. On December 6, General Hershey froze the Enlisted Reserves, and enlistment or the draft were the only alternatives left. A fellow could be picked up at 18 now, so no one--freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior--was going to stay in school much longer anyway, if he were able-bodied...
...Bernard Black Gallery. Since the drawings are mostly landscapes or sketches for larger compositions, the gallery placed them, wherever possible, next to a photocopy of the finished work. The demonstration is plain: as West's ideas progressed from initial draft to finished sketch to final oil, faces froze, bodies puffed out. The muscular athlete in the initial sketch becomes, on canvas, a wooden Greek soldier. In almost every case, West was at his best when he stuck to his least...