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Using an instrument called the geodimeter, Hofmann aimed a beam of in tense light from a site on one side of a fault at a reflector set up on the other side, between twelve and 20 miles away...
...measuring the time required for the light to travel to the reflector and back to the geodimeter, he calculated the precise distance between the two points...
Despite the fact that Liberian politics are not exactly democratic-Tub-man's True Whig Party has no effective opposition-"Uncle Shad" has never kept himself aloof from his people. He hears hundreds of petitions each week in his $6,000,000 sun-reflector-coated palace, settles even minor matters in his government, including the marital disputes of his staff. He finds time to dance a spry quadrille at soirees in the palace and is much less a stickler than he used to be about top hats and cutaways at state functions; at a dam dedication last year...
...challenge to M.S.U.'s ticketing system was raised last spring by 25-year-old Leslie Cohen, a student from Canada who also edited the campus newspaper, the Reflector. After accumulating $135 worth of tickets for illegal parking, Cohen was summoned before a faculty discipline committee. Much to the professors' surprise, he showed up with a lawyer in tow and announced that he was legally protesting the fines. Since he could not appeal the committee's decision to other courts and was denied the privilege of a jury trial, Cohen argued that his constitutional rights were being violated...
...German Acoustician Heinrich Keilholz takes over. Clouds are raised and further patched up. Their function is now described as "decorative." Undulating, floor-to-ceiling panels of plywood constructed around stage. Auditorium walls reshaped. Two-foot-deep "reflector box" constructed around stage apron. Air-conditioning units are muffled. Total cost: $335,000. Critics say echoes persist and bass has developed thudding sound. Consensus is that sound is warmer, but still nothing approaching that of Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw or Boston's Symphony Hall-all built before acoustics became a science...