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Chuang Shang-yen, curator of the Peking Palace Museum collection, and Dr. Han Lih-wu, now Ambassador to Thailand, who supervised the removal of the treasures from Nanking. Proofs of the final selection, made with the help of U.S. experts, were flown back to Formosa for color correction on the spot, and are now reproduced, most for the first time, in ART, Masterpieces of Chinese Art. CALIFORNIA'S political gun slingers were moseying around the state last week, setting up barricades for the inevitable shouting that will break out when Governor Goodwin Knight defends his job against tall...
Another Chinese 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...
Chinese Lunch. The chilled cobalt experiment proved extremely difficult, but by last fortnight Dr. Wu reported her results. The electrons were not shooting off equally in both directions. This looked bad for parity, and spirits rose high in the anti-parity camp...
...Columbia's physicists, Fridays are "Chinese lunch days," when Professor Lee, a gourmet as well as a physicist, takes a select group to a nearby Chinese restaurant, where he orders special dishes. During a very long Chinese lunch, Dr. Wu's progress in Washington was discussed excitedly. Dr. Lee turned to Associate Professor Leon M. Lederman. who works with Columbia's 385 million-volt cyclotron at Irvington, N.Y. "Why not try the mu mesons?" he asked...
...court beauties. Unfortunately, much of what was most perishable, including the scroll paintings and murals, has disappeared, and today is known only through third-or fourth-hand copies. That such might be their fate the T'ang artists may even have suspected. The legend of Artist Wu Tao-tzu indicates at least a premonition. After Wu had finished his greatest mural, he stepped through a secret door as his painting vanished before the eyes of the astonished Emperor. Neither Wu nor his mural was ever seen again...