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Then Dr. Hall rang the bell. At the terrifying sound, the black mice tended to crouch and "freeze." The brown mice scurried around the tub, 93% of them falling in convulsions. Nearly all of the ones with convulsions died. Nearly all the strong-nerved black mice survived the bell...
...haunted and deserted for centuries, the mysterious limestone cities of the Maya crouch in the Yucatan bush and the Guatemalan-Honduran jungles. They were already in ruins when Hernando Cortes marched into Mexico 400 years ago to teach Montezuma's Aztecs a Spanish lesson. The names of those deserted cities echo with a kind of distant, mournful music: Tikal, Copan, Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Mayapan...
Headed by Robert S. Sturgis '44, the Council committee included Allen L. Crouch, 3rd '47, Ronald M. Foster, Jr. '47, Caldwell Titcomb '47, and John H. Wermer...
...Crouch & Swing. There was no Maginot Line mentality in the Central African conception. The 19,000-foot snowcap of legendary Kilimanjaro might be a figurative Gibraltar at the approaches to the Indian...
...protected seaways of Good Hope, north to the Middle Eastern land bridge uniting three continents. Britain (or Suez) could be saturated overnight by enemy rockets; huge Africa could absorb thousands, and still shoot back. In those green hills far away, Britain (and the U.S.) could, if the worst came, crouch defensively, have time and room to launch an atomic roundhouse...