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...much new ground," sighed one State Department official wearily after Secretary of State Dulles finished another day of fending off his critics on the 30-man combined Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees. At one point Arkansas' Bill Fulbright, who had put the stock market into a tail spin by his hazy handling of the 1955 financial hearings, even wanted to let the Eisenhower doctrine and the crisis go hang while he investigated U.S. Middle East policy all the way back...
...physicist at Columbia, Associate Professor Chien-Shiung Wu, went to Washington. Working with a topflight team at the National Bureau of Standards, she arranged an elaborate deepfreeze apparatus to cool radioactive cobalt 60 to 0.01° above absolute zero ( - 273.1° C.). The cobalt nuclei are known to be spinning, and they continue to spin in the deepfreeze, but their random "thermal" motions are reduced almost to nothing by the extreme cold. This accomplished. Dr. Wu and her helpers applied a powerful magnetic field that pointed the cobalt nuclei in one direction as if they were tiny magnets...
Temperature has no effect on radioactivity, so the chilled, lined-up cobalt atoms went right on disintegrating and emitting electrons. According to the parity principle, the electrons should shoot off in equal numbers in both directions along the spin axes of the lined-up nuclei. Any preference by the electrons for either direction would prove that parity is not a real law of nature...
...mesons disintegrate in two-millionths of a second, each forming an electron and two neutrinos, and this lifetime is too short to permit thermal motions in the carbon block to disturb them appreciably. When they lodge in the carbon, they are all spinning in the same direction, and under these conditions the parity principle requires that when they disintegrate, they must shoot out the same number of electrons in each direction along their common spin axis...
...those tough patter songs with a science-fiction twist: this cat was born on Mars and he's laying the other planets low. He wears "real nervous pegs with a crazy crease," and he's gonna "hit these chicks with a Martian jolt." Good for a spin...