Word: sonar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sonar for Boredom. Dr. Colin Cherry, 48, professor of telecommunication at London's Imperial College of Science and Technology, and Psychologist Neville Moray of Sheffield University got interested in the cocktail-party problem through their studies on the directional nature of human hearing. They kept their eyes and ears open at cocktail parties, but did their actual sound research in the laboratory-the cocktail parties were too noisy. They discovered that the seasoned partygoer does not face the person he is listening to, but turns only one ear toward him, while using the other ear as if it were...
...fact that lasers can blast holes in razor blades would hardly explain the excitement that they have stirred up. There is more to them than that. In their ruby hearts, lasers hold the secrets of new industrial and communication techniques, new sonar-like underwater detection systems. They may supply the means for the most precise measurements ever made of the speed of light...
Sing Out & Sonar. By his own description, he was always the class cutup and showoff. Raised in suburban Boston, where his father ran a chain of movie theaters, he was forever going to school with phony bandages on his head, explaining that his mother had hit him with a rolling pin or, after the 1938 hurricane, that a falling oak had beaned him. Something had to be done, or so it seemed, and eventually Morse was sent off to the lower school of the Christian Scientist Principia College in Illinois. Peccadilloes there were punished as sins. When Bobby stole...
After four years as a sonar man in the Navy, Bobby approached Broadway. Under the wing of his brother, Actor Richard Morse, his career developed quickly, with the usual tune-ups: American Theater Wing, classes with Lee Strasberg, etc. And he has calmed down considerably now that he is a $1,750-a-week star. Last April he married Carole D'Andrea, an actress-dancer who had a supporting role in West Side Story, and their first child is due in December. With the success of How to Succeed, Morse has finally developed confidence in himself, and the brat...
...toadfish, with its huge head, small body and slimy skin, may well rank as the ugliest creature in animaldom. Sailors hate the toadfish because it croaks so loudly that it confuses sonar signals; fishermen despise it because it is as inedible as the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder. Piled up on beaches from Cape Cod to Florida, it smells like rotten whale. Yet even mudcolored toadfish can be heroes...