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...excitement, partly trying to make out what was going on. Grand opera fans found it pretty rough going-the music never hit upon a tune, the orchestra was heavy and even the best-pleased listeners took issue with such details as Bluebeard's spidery costume and the static quality of the action. But psychoanalysis is popular in Manhattan. When it was all over, it looked as if Bluebeard's Castle would be a successful part of the company's repertory...
...present News Chairman defined a university as "a place where nothing is static, where that noblest of all intoxicating processes, intellectual ferment, takes place constantly. It is a place where men are taught how to think, to judge, and to be free--to be free to judge and think as they...
Aircraft men smiled at Westinghouse's sweeping claims. Horsepower "at flight speeds" is a misleading phrase, since jet horsepower varies with a plane's speed, altitude and other factors. The standard measure of jet power is pounds of static thrust at 375 m.p.h. at sea level. In those terms, the J-40's thrust is somewhere around 10,000 Ibs. But this was with afterburner attachments (which eat fuel so fast they can only be used in short bursts). Without afterburners, guessed American Aviation Daily, the J-40's thrust is closer...
...answering-and accepting, in a reserved sort of way-the vigorous call of Statesman John Foster Dulles for meeting Communist aggression "by retaliatory action of our own fashioning" (TIME, May 19). Said the Secretary: "There has been a widespread misunderstanding that what we are seeking to create is a static containment situation. This is not at all the case...
...second fatal explosion in three months in a U.S. hospital (TIME, Feb. 18). As before, no one knew immediately just what touched off the gas, though static electricity at some point near the anesthetic circuit was accepted as the general cause. City hospital officials began a thorough investigation last week, but one fact was established immediately: though Cumberland had taken careful precautions (cotton gowns for the surgeons, metal chains on the anesthetic machine), its operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines...