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...only place at Harvard where you could hear yourself think has been destroyed. The acoustical laboratory and its ancchoic chamber, housed in its own building on Oxford St., were torn down last Thursday and Friday...
...ancchoic chamber is a completely echoless room, acoustically isolated from the outside world. A person inside the room can hear his own heartbeat because there are no distracting outside noises or internal echoes...
...urged their followers to vote what amounts to another $134 million to complete two SST prototypes, and thus to retain the possibility of salvaging something from the $864 million in tax money already invested. Both the galleries and the floor of the House were packed-a rarity in that chamber-as the SST debate neared its close. The strong feeling on both sides was audible. A guttural murmuring of distaste swept the floor as Democratic Floor Leader Hale Boggs harangued the House in support of the aircraft and was caught fudging about previous House votes on the plane...
...indeed possible. Morse says that theoretically a steamer could use any kind of fuel, "even camel dung, if there were enough camels," but he prefers kerosene. The fuel is not exploded inside the cylinder as it is in the internal-combustion engine but is burned in an external combustion chamber at atmospheric pressure. As a result it gives off much lower concentrations of toxic gases than present machines. Because there are no cylinder explosions, the steamer is fairly quiet, merely chattering and hissing instead of roaring like internal-combustion engines...
...Groups protesting rent control, police brutality, the lack of low-rent housing, and the recent tendency of the City Council to fire the City Manager after every election demand more attention from the Council. Often Mayor Vellucci must bang his gavel 20 times to maintain order in the council chamber. The era of dinners at Igo's has gone...