Word: herzfeld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electronic devices. Some, no larger than a silver dollar, can be seeded by aircraft; once in place, they will detect the movement of the smallest enemy groups and transmit warnings to gun crews miles away. "We are getting better and better at this sort of thing," says Charles M. Herzfeld, until recently director of the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency. "I think that it is really our secret weapon." Still, there are plenty of bugs in the system: rats, dogs, or even rainfall can trigger the gadgets-and it rains an average of 120 inches during...
...Sermons are usually built around the catechism," complained Physicist Charles Herzfeld, writing about "Our Wasted Intellectuals" in the July 6 issue of Commonweal. "This is simply not good enough. Parish activities, where the featured speaker is a football coach, are not good enough, nor are bazaars, nor novenas." Parish life, he says, often gives "a great and deep sense of being outcast, and of being abandoned by the Church...