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...noisemakers produce a mild form of radio static called "white noise" by engineers. Turned down to a discreet volume, the static masks distracting outside noises and disturbing interior echoes. The white noise has its limitations. "It's very tricky," says Robert Newman, senior vice president of Bolt Beranek & Newman, a Cambridge, Mass., company specializing in acoustic engineering. "It would take a horrendous amount of noise to mask a supersonic transport airplane. Generating white noise to hide sounds above the annoyance level is like using Chanel No. 5 to hide the fact that you haven't had a bath...
...Prospect. Byrd may not be the only prominent Democrat to bolt the party this year. Mississippi's John Stennis is frequently mentioned as a possible crossover, a suggestion that he denies. Texas State Representative W.R. (Bill) Archer, elected as a Democrat in 1968, is already running for Congressman George Bush's seat as a Republican. But the man most likely to switch is Georgia's archsegregationist Governor Lester Maddox. Prevented by state law and a negative court ruling from seeking reelection, he has announced as a candidate for lieutenant governor. He is thinking of running...
...Quarrel arisen between Pallas, and Jove, respecting the Force of a particular. One of his mighty Thunderbolts, the University might have continued Obscure Forever. BUT the angered Jove seized-up the disputed Bolt and hurled it with great Spite into the University's Computer Central, causing a vast Short-circuit...
...Viking. $14.95. A fascinating social document, full of cheerful ideas about interior design. The book shows how today's "with it" people live in Europe and the U.S. They subdivide interior space into tricky levels. They love mirrors and blazing primary colors. Their art works are random-a bolt of Persian cloth, a chrome lamp, a billboard fragment, a lute. Does all this glitter mean anything more than an egotist's smile? Author Barbara Plumb, editor of the Home section of the New York Times Magazine, chats tersely about each dwelling, but wisely leaves conclusions to the reader...
...thirty thousand feet as planned, they explode. Hundreds of little American flags pop up along the metal bolt ridges and peace parachutes release. In a little while the bombs full of it settle down on the campus lawn. And Craig sits back...