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...merry-go-round. Lanky (6 ft. 2 in.) Conductor Thomas Schippers. making his Met debut at 25, kept a wary eye roving over the orchestra. With the same vigor he had shown in the pit of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME, Jan. 10), he put a spin on every phrase. The music chuckled, twittered and bounced from one carefree music-hall polka into another...
Ordinary heat is motions of atoms or molecules, but when the motion has died away at 0° K., the nuclei of the atoms still have a property called "spin." Some spins have more energy than others, and the spinning nuclei can affect the spin of other nuclei near them. So high-energy spin can spread through a substance in much the same way that heat does. Low-energy spin can spread, too, so a substance whose atoms are motionless in the ordinary sense can still lose energy and cool below absolute zero...
...laws that govern spin temperatures at -K. are not for physics beginners, and ordinary rules of thermodynamics do not work. They lead to the incorrect conclusion that a heat engine operating below absolute zero can do work, e.g., produce mechanical energy, without affecting the temperature of the material that it is ' using as an energy source. Professor Ramsey proposes that one of the thermodynamics laws (among the most sacred in physics) be changed to preclude the possibility of a -K. perpetual-motion machine...
Less spectacular but not less important gadgets measure the performance of fabrics, plastics, ceramics, alloys and an endless assortment of the electrical nerves and senses that proliferate through modern aircraft. Helicopter rotors spin in test cells that look like oil storage tanks; wind tunnels roar and rumble, solving the endless problems of aerodynamics...
...remarks explain the white man's attitude toward the Negro, the "Other Side" seldom understood amid the "quivering emotion" and "finger-shaking" of the Yankee liberal. He states that he is "convinced of the basic evils of white supremacy" and "the equality of all races." He proceeds, however, to spin a web of selective evidence to show how the Southern white is justified in his own eyes (and in the eyes of "intelligent" people generally) in keeping the Negro down, for the time being at least...