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Nachat Martini, 50, kissed his wife goodbye, waddled from the door of his chateau in suburban Servon, and got behind the wheel of his Buick. The horn began to sound insistently, and his statuesque wife Helene rushed out to find her 5-ft. 5-in., 220-lb. husband sprawled over the steering wheel, his body quivering from a massive heart attack. In a few moments, the uncrowned "King of the Place Pigalle" was dead...
...birdlike Ceylonese student, his black eyes magnified by big horn-rimmed spectacles, explained why he had come to Moscow: "My father is a government clerk, and with six others in the family, he couldn't afford to send me to the university at home. Here at Friendship University, I not only get a monthly stipend but can even save half of it. Not bad for a start, eh?'' The Ceylonese continued: "It's a good thing the Socialists back home won the last election. If the pro-American party had won, they wouldn't have...
...bright spots in the U.S. is somnolent Memphis, which has won 14 "Quietest City" awards from the National Noise Abatement Council for a strict program that requires thrice-yearly inspection of car brakes and mufflers, permits horn honking only in emergencies, and prescribes fines for people who keep noisy pets. But more needs to be done, says Physicist Knudsen: "The reduction of noise results in increases in output of labor and in human well-being that usually more than justify the cost of reducing the noise...
...paraffin that led to his Nobel-prizewinning "nuclear resonance" system for measuring atomic properties. In his early studies of the 21-cm. radio waves coming from hydrogen clouds in interstellar space, Purcell made do with a hastily devised antenna hung outside his Harvard laboratory. It looked like a horn left over from an ancient phonograph, but it worked...
...tiny (500 students) Roman Catholic college of Belmont Abbey, nestling in the farmlands of southern North Carolina, suggests rural serenity. Everything, that is, save Basketball Coach Al McGuire, 32. Brash as Broadway, New York-born Al McGuire still has a subway tang to his speech as he blows his horn with the stridency of a barker at Coney. "I fill the people's gymnasiums, give 'em a good show and a good ball game," he says. "I may make silly statements, but I'm no jerk...