Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noncoms. More than half of all recent army trainees have learned their basics in G.S.T. courses. Just as important to Ulbricht's hopes of keeping the lid on in East Germany was another lesson taught at G.S.T.: how to take orders. "G.S.T. training," said Defense Minister General Heinz Hoffmann, "must also accustom the young continually to firm discipline and order, and teach them to follow orders of the trainers with respect and without discussion." That, too, had an all too familiar ring...
...January slow time has never been possible. How can the slowing of time be measured if all the available timing devices on earth are similarly affected by relativity? Last summer, when the regularly beeping signals of pulsars were first detected coming from outer space, Queens College Physicist Banesh Hoffmann figured that they might supply an answer. Though their source was unknown, the precisely spaced radio pulses coming from light-years away seemed to be the distant clock needed to measure earth time. In a letter to Nature, Hoffmann suggested that the pulse rate of pulsars be taken regularly from January...
...slow down relative to the pulsar clock in January, and speed up correspondingly in June, the pulsar signals (which have blipped at a constant frequency since they were discovered) would appear to increase their repetition rates as earth clocks slowed down and decrease them as earth time speeded up. Hoffmann's plan was immediately snapped up by Dror Sadeh, a Tel Aviv University physicist currently attached to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory at Washington...
...compared with its rate this month-a clear indication that earth time has slowed by the same amount. If Einstein was right, that observed slowdown will total about 1/ 100th of a second per year. "If our measurements are accurate and we don't get this result," says Hoffmann, "then we scientists-and the Einstein theory-are in trouble...
...subsequent leading roles in Faust, Don Giovanni and The Ballad of Baby Doe. A quartet of music critics, bearing bouquets of flowery superlatives, utters the rousing paean, These Tired Ears Lo at Long Last Rejoice. They praise Beverly's performance in The Tales of Hoffmann-in which she portrays all three heroines. They worship her Cleopatra in Handel's Julius Caesar, a role whose vocal acrobatics are so demanding that the opera is rarely performed...