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Residents of Canton, Ill. (pop. 14,000), regulated their lives according to the seven blasts heard each day on the town's whistle, perched on top of the local International Harvester plant. They awakened to the first morning whistle at 6 a.m., set their watches by it, and moved in steady, sure steps throughout the day, alert to the whistle's sound. The Environmental Protection Agency heard in the whistle not the sound of a community ordering its hours but a D.B.A. (for decibels adjusted) measurement of 89, 28 points higher than the limit allowed by a state...
...region for more than 14 years. Chen was sent to Peking as commander of the capital military region. Another powerful Politburo member, Hsu Shih-yu, 67, was uprooted from the comfortable Yangtze barony of the Nanking military region he had held for the past 16 years and sent to Canton, even though he reportedly cannot speak Cantonese...
China's trade relationship with England seemed no different. By the emperor's decree, only Canton could be used as a port of call. This allowance was seen as a favor. Chinese believed that they needed nothing the British could offer and, according to one wide misconception, that the English could not live without tea or rhubarb, without which they would surely die of constipation...
POTSDAM, N.Y.--Most college hockey teams do not venture forth eagerly on weekend road trips to Canton, N.Y., and Potsdam, N.Y., for few visiting squads have returned victorious over both St. Lawrence and Clarkson...
...Crimson icemen scorned tradition, however, last Saturday when they downed the Golden Knights, 5-3, here in Clarkson Arena, only 24 hours after edging the Larries, 6-4, in Canton...