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...High-Decibel Hymnfests. The only property that Father Divine ever held in his own name was an eight-room house in Sayville, Long Island, where he settled in 1919 to minister to his growing congregation. During one highdecibel hymnfest there in 1931, the cops moved in and arrested Father Divine and 80 worshipers, some of them white. God Himself pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from the noisy singing, and Judge Lewis J. Smith sentenced him to jail. Four days later, when Judge Smith fell dead at 50 of a heart attack, Father Divine sighed, "I hated...
...Americans. No such thing: the latest Gallup poll showed that for every two citizens who want the U.S. to get out of Viet Nam, three favor its present policy there or want to escalate the war further; that 76% support U.S. military intervention in the Dominican Republic. Still, the decibel count of criticism is high, and Johnson is supersensitive to any sort of criticism. He therefore gave Bundy a go-ahead to answer the critics on their own home grounds...
...builders claim that for $1,000 extra, they can build this kind of soundproofing into a new $20,000 house. For that kind of money, the public's response to low-decibel domiciles is likely to be a loud hurrah...
...appearance, an important point in image-conscious California. After it was all over, even Democratic Governor Pat Brown was impressed by the Republican campaign, called it "one of the best I have ever seen." Murphy's victory could do much to produce a badly needed change in the decibel count of the California G.O.P...
...want Barry." Rocky gallantly persisted. "It is essential," he shouted, "that this convention repudiate here and now any doctrinaire militant minority, whether Communist, Ku Klux Klan or Bircher." The crowd booed. Chairman Thruston Morton of Kentucky angrily crashed down his gavel, but the noise dipped scarcely a decibel. Rocky snapped into the microphone: "It's still a free country, ladies and gentlemen...