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Albert Wojcik was a victim of "boilermaker's ear," the impairment of hearing that follows long exposure to noise. As sound engineers measure it, the intensity of ordinary conversation is 50 decibels; an average factory is rated at 85 decibels. Above 90 decibels, reached in many factories, prolonged noise will impair the hearing of some sensitive individuals; in the range from 100 to 120 decibels, noise will damage the hearing of most workers. Above 120 decibels, practically everybody will suffer...
...diabetics can eat a "self-selected, unweighed and unmeasured diet" to suit their own tastes and appetites, even if a little sugar does appear in the urine, said Dr. Edward Tolstoi of Cornell University Medical School. His idea: daily insulin will control the disease, and a severe diet may impair the patient's metabolic processes instead of improving them. ¶The mysterious poisons that appear in the bloodstream of severely burned patients and kill them several days after the original injury may not be so mysterious after all two Army medics told the Association of Military Surgeons. They have...
...been said that these scandals should have been hushed, lest they impair the football community's morale for the Yale game. The real danger lies in secrecy, for in secrecy commercialized attitudes and practices could persist and grow into bigger, more damaging scandals. We believe the football community is true enough to its traditions to cleanse itself of these attitudes and practices without any effect on its morale. It needs only a pressure from the Administration and the other students to do so quickly. There can be no sanction to any student making a profit out of Harvard football...
...just $15,000 threatens to impair the effectiveness of the decentralized Deans' office plan which Faculty headaches and dollars designed several years ago. If limited meals for tutors mean Houses working at limited efficiency, surely the University's budget can yield in a softer place. Famous and enriching educational customs should receive some form of budgetary precedence at Harvard, yet even a jump of several dollars in room rents would be a cheap price for restoration of unlimited meals for the tutors...
TIME'S editors should know that federal employees do not establish policy but execute it; and to make career employees the whipping boy because of the size of the budget is not only unfair but wholly unrealistic . . . We are aware that "nobody wants to end or to impair the merit system," but in view of the tenor of the piece as a whole, its derogation of career employees, its repetition of some of the most moth-eaten of the spoilsmen's cliches, such a qualification loses any real meaning or force. Virtually every attack on the merit system...