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They were talking about Cheetah, Manhattan's newest and noisiest fun house, which roared into life last week with the growl and din of a gigantic concrete mixer. It had a familiar look, a return to the big, brash scene of the 1930s marathon dance halls, and on opening night some 2,000 invited guests pushed through the door of the Broadway and 53rd Street site known to their parents as the Riviera Terrace and, before that, the Arcadia Ballroom...
...excursion into the traditional blooding ground of British politicians, the Rag Market in Birmingham. There he had barely stepped onto the podium in the huge underground concrete hall when an especially rabid band of hecklers shrieked so loud and so long that Wilson could not be heard above the din. When police waded into the crowd to restrain the troublemakers, Wilson waved the bobbies off. "They are not in need of police protection," he said. "They are a matter for the Ministry of Health-Mental Health Department...
...slot. The puck skipped under the goalie's stick, under his right leg-into the nets. Number 51. For nearly ten minutes, hats rained down onto the ice. Bobby picked up one and put it on, then went to the bench and sat acknowledging the din with a toothless smile...
...rely on a 1924 French law that says: "The right of an aerial vehicle to fly over private property cannot be exercised in such conditions as to interfere with the rights of the proprietor." Those rights, said the plaintiff, were clearly violated since the jets created a 115-decibel din, a nerve-snapping 45 decibels above what scientists say humans can tolerate. To the airline's shock a court of appeals upheld Rossow, noting only that any lack of effort to soundproof the Blue Bird should cut the still-to-be decided damage award...
Stepping regally from his Citroen, Guinea's President Sékou Touré marched to the podium through a squad of women police in white breeches and gleaming boots. A din of drums and balaphon music filled the square, while gales of girls in green, red and yellow hand-printed dresses waited eagerly for the word. Sékou's speech was "to women in prisons all over the country," whose sentences, he announced, would herewith be reduced by a year - except for those held for criminal offenses...