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...book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...
...There has been no suppression. The man who calls himself Frank Jackson (alias Jacques Mornard) has been convicted of Trotsky's murder, is in close custody in Mexico City jail awaiting sentence, while Mexican authorities look further into the dark question of Stalinist instigation. Jackson's cell is specially constructed, has steel bars like a tiger's cage. His onetime very good friend, Sylvia Ageloff, was acquitted of complicity, left Mexico...
...only produced a tadpole, but a tadpole which showed some characteristics of its mother. The obvious and significant conclusion: The intricate mechanism of embryonic development is not determined by genes alone, as most geneticists have thought, but depends on the whole protoplasm of the egg cell...
...Stanley showed that a pure strain of virus could be crystallized-consisted of lifeless molecules with the curious, lifelike power of reproducing themselves. This discovery closed the mysterious gap between living and inert matter, indicated no essential distinction except relative complexity of structure between atom, molecule, virus, cell and multicellular organism such...
Worse than the police was the cold prison. Young had nothing to sit down on but the damp cell floor. At last Ambassador Grew sent Young his sealskin-lined overcoat. Grew is over six feet tall; Young, much shorter. When Young turned up the coat collar, he was covered from head to foot. Young soon discovered that the Ambassador's coat gave him a certain diplomatic immunity. "As long as I had it on, the police would recognize it as Ambassador Crew's property. Removed, I was just another reporter." Young never took it off, wore it even...