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...Manhattan recording production firm, Leisure Data, Inc., the tapes-available as cassettes or cartridges-supply the proper noisy backdrop for eight separate situations. The familiar noises of a traffic jam, the jet whines and flight announcements of a busy airport, the sounds of a crowded lobby, a phone booth at Grand Central Station or Macy's department store, an array of long-distance operators from major U.S. cities, a hospital or office milieu-the whole...
...construction site," quipped Jerome Kretchmer, head of the city's Environmental Protection Administration. On the first day of the show, Kretchmer spoke at a rally, launching a march on the Coliseum that was led by black-robed protesters wearing gas masks. Inside, his men set up a booth, complete with slides depicting auto pollution and pleas to car buffs: "The car is anti-city. It clogs our streets, fouls the air, assails our ears, devours our open space." The opening of the booth created a brief stir among the patrons and exhibitors; then everyone returned to serious business-admiring...
...black ghetto wards. Their loyalty, though, may be due to the diligence of Democratic precinct workers, who remind the voters that the continued receipt of welfare checks is somehow inextricable from the franchise. Then, being thorough in their work, says Royko, they accompany the voter into the polling booth to make sure he does not forget...
...afternoon. A 110-year-old woman was carried by her great-grandson. Women frequently outnumbered the men, and some bore babies in their arms. Others appeared in their finest saris and jewelry. Sweetmeat vendors did a brisk business. When a cow gave birth to a calf outside a polling booth, everyone hailed it as a good omen. Officials of the New Congress Party, whose symbol is a cow nursing a calf, immediately ordered a shed erected...
...Army is on the defensive, and nowhere more seriously-or ironically-than in its home country of Great Britain. General William Booth, its founder, was a rebel-a onetime pawnbroker's apprentice and Methodist preacher who abandoned the class-conscious churches of his day to preach salvation in the desolate slums of Victorian England. His "church" was a revolutionary religious body-a consciously designed "army" complete with uniforms and "Articles of War," dedicated to feeding and caring for the poor, exposing social injustice and lobbying for reform legislation. Now, a century later, the organization itself is under fire...