Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help prepare them for the cold, Stephen Baldanza, public-affairs officer in the U.S. embassy in Kabul, had an audacious idea. He invited about 60 Afghan government officials, including four Cabinet members, to a dinner party. When dinner was over the lights went out, and a State Department motion picture entitled My Latvia was shown to the surprised guests. It was a chilling documentary of the Russians' rape of Latvia in the 1940s, based in part on films smuggled out since. The guests left in stunned silence, except for one who drew Baldanza aside, and said: "I am glad...
...motion pictures have passed from the experimental to the practical phase, the Radiological Society of North America was told at its 41st annual meeting in Chicago. The X-ray movies verify accurately what diagnostic physicians have only been able to guess about, e.g., the swallowing process (which doctors found varies greatly from person to person), the stomach's pushing action (gastric peristalsis), speech defects, heart anomalies...
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...
...third school of thought, which disclaims and interest in precise time-and-motion study, prefers to walk up Massachusetts Avenue, and eventually turn left on Shepard Street. This route, as one of their adherents boasted last spring, is 1.1 miles long...
...York, presidents of the major movie companies upheld the Hollywood Production Code Administration and refused to give United Artists a code seal for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm because the movie deals with the taboo subject of dope addiction. U.A. promptly quit the Motion Picture Association of America, which administers the code, went ahead with plans to release the movie, starring Frank Sinatra, in Manhattan this week, had high hopes that, like Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, also released without a code seal, it will make a killing at the box office...