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...acquired $70,000 family home in fashionable Cedarhurst, Long Island, turns out to be right under the most popular jet approach alley to J.F.K. Airport; the planes banshee by at 600 ft. so often that your 21-year-old daughter is driven autistic. Solution: float a war-surplus barrage balloon 1,500 ft. above the house and let the jets squall where they...
...great idea as a stunt in civil disobedience. But as a book, the balloon does not hold up quite so well, though it may fascinate people who daydream about becoming system saboteurs. Author Hatch has helped his story by including a fine short course on the myths and truths about jet planes, their noise and their impact on human beings. One old saw neatly skewered: the aviation industry's contention that man can adjust to any noise level. That is simply medically false. In response to such facts, sufferers of noise pollution can only sound a loud "Hear! Hear...
...Force vs. Balloon...
Afterwards, researchers discovered that the UFO had been a Navy weather balloon which had not been announced to the Air Force tracking station...
Changing Roles. As wage costs balloon, a growing list of companies in Western Europe and Japan are seeking similar savings-sometimes next door, sometimes at the other end of the world. Sweden's Saab has just completed a plant in Uusikaupunkt, an undeveloped area of Finland, to roll out 15,000 cars a year, about one-third of which will be sent back to Sweden; the Finnish workers get about half the pay that Saab's Swedish employees do. West Germany's Daimler-Benz has invested $6.6 million in a Yugoslav truck and bus plant and supplies...