Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grave drawback: it is in close proximity to several Navy and Air Force bases, including Hamilton Air Force Base now being used by the over-2,000-m.p.h. SR-71 reconnaissance plane. As a result, Santa Barbara, by the count of one irate citizen, was bombed with a sonic boom for 75 successive days this summer. "It's ghastly," says Mrs. George M. Sidenberg, both the wife and mother of Navy aviators. "One boom nearly threw me out of bed at 10 p.m. I was here for the 1950 Santa Barbara earthquake, and it felt just like that...
...Dealer Walter Silva has seen his paintings shaken off the wall; girls in the suburban Montecito Post Office live in fear the next boom will shatter their office's plate glass window; and Archie Banks, who watches for booms on his seismograph, says that they leave tracks on the recording drums like those of minor earthquakes. In response, Santa Barbarans have been bombarding city hall to do something. Last week city hall did. By a vote of 6-1, the city council passed an ordinance declaring a sonic boom an "unlawful public nuisance," with fines...
Thus Santa Barbara became the first municipality to ban the boom, but it is far from being alone in discovering that it could not live with the boom without hating it. Unlike noise from a subsonic jet, which builds up gradually as the plane approaches, sonic boom comes as a bang without warning...
Obviously, grass roots organizational success, although impressive, will never be enough. The fact that the League hears regularly from a Chicago woman every time a military plane's boom damages her house means little; the SST's fate lies with Congress. The House recently voted SST appropriations for another year, and that bill is now in the Senate. Shurcliff is the first to admit that the chances of killing off the SST this fall in Congress look very slight. Only six Senators have expressed definite support for the League. And Shurcliff thinks many people have been confused by the Federal...
...long run, though, he is optimistic. The Concorde project is in financial trouble, and there is a chance that either Britain or France will pull out, providing a reasonable excuse for the U.S. to drop its own version. And there is the boom itself. "More and more people are getting fed up with it," Shurcliff comments, referring to boom tests being conducted over selected cities. He has received only four letters in favor of sonic booms--one from a man who wrote that the loud noise "made him proud to be an American." League members are urged to write their...