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...summer ( - 100° C.). In fact, the pole's winter air at this altitude is warmer than that over New Mexico in midsummer (75° C.). Last week Dr. Will Kellogg of Rand Corp. told a Los Angeles meeting of the American Geophysical Union that this paradoxical warmth comes from the recombination of broken oxygen molecules...
...atoms that were brought to the pole by the circulation of the high atmosphere. The air is compressed by sinking down, the atoms get closer together, and many of them manage to combine into molecules. The process gives off heat, which Dr. Kellogg thinks is responsible for the winter warmth of the high polar atmosphere...
...could wish that plumbers would install them nowadays. Zinc tubs are deeper than the conventional porcelain ones, thus being more modest and more efficient. The water level reaches the shoulders rather than just the knees of the seated bather. The metal sides conserve warmth - of great strategic importance in the older houses of Cantabrigia...
...that Washington likes dictators. Quite obviously, the U.S. favors democracy as a governing principle, does not put Latin American dictators into power, recognizes them once in power only as it recognizes any ruling government. But a policy of correctness to dictators leaves plenty of room for a policy of warmth to democratic governments, and there is more warmth in Washington these days for men in Betancourt's mold...
...years have made a distinguished name by searching out musical curiosa, in a Town Hall concert featured Alessandro Scarlatti's rarely performed oratorio, II Martirio di Sant' Orsola. An unpretentious work, it had little true dramatic tension but was supported by a vocal latticework of wonderful warmth, tenderness and transparency. Elsewhere on the program. Conductor Jenkins exhumed a wonderfully flourishing Trumpet Suite by 17th century English Composer Jeremiah Clarke, and played Mexican Composer Carlos Chavez' Symphony No. 5, a propulsively rhythmic work for strings that ran hard and relentlessly but with no more effect than...