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...Navy is specially worried about the sound hazard. On the narrow space of a carrier's deck, many men must work in powerful sound fields. Last week the Navy was carefully investigating the effects of jet noises on its crews...
...Fingers. One method was to borrow an F94 (with afterburner) from the Air Force and lash it to the deck of the carrier Coral Sea. Under the watchful eyes of flight physicians,volunteers walked into its sound field. Few emerged without respect for what sound waves can do. When they get strong enough, the sound waves not only hurt the ears but make other parts of the body vibrate. A man standing in a sound field of 120 decibels (common near the tail pipe of a jet) feels the waves in surprising ways. If he holds out his hand...
...cabins are comfortable but not opulent. There are 344 first-class cabins (top price: $930 for double bedroom, bathroom and sitting room), 178 second or cabin class ($220 to $290), and 173 third or tourist class ($200 for an outside main-deck cabin with upper & lower berths and running water, to $165 for the cheapest cabin...
...matter of minutes Barkely has discovered the driver and is off to the pier. As the boat bearing the captives pulls away. Barkeley leaps onto the deck and applies judo to a man on watch. Quickly he removes the unconscious Red's coolie shirt and slips it on. Hardly has he a chance to compose his features inscrutably when he is discovered. In two action-packed minutes, with the announcer keeping score, Bob's brisk punches K.O. five more comrades, all of whom, he points out, have "egg chins." He rescues Rita, who breathes, "You're wonderful." "Save that...
Cornell, which the Crimson beat--by over a length a week ago at Princeton, broke the previous record by 2.4 seconds and crossed the finish a little less than a deck-length ahead of the Crimson. The times were 8:45.7. Boston University finished way behind in third place...