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...hate noise," says Los Angeles Physicist Vern O. Knudsen. "Noise is a human plague...
What concerns blunt, balding Dr. Knudsen-and many another U.S. scientist-is that the U.S., already perhaps the loudest nation in the world, is growing still noisier. Ever more numerous jet planes scream overhead, unmuffled trucks roar through city streets, sports cars whine along once placid suburban roads, and missile-age workers are being exposed to the highest and most dangerous noise levels in history. "Noise," says Physicist Knudsen, "is the bane of our existence...
Other changes of the week: ¶ John Bruce Bonny, 57, was elected president of the Morrison-Knudsen Co., the world's biggest publicly-owned heavy construction firm (1959 construction completed: $236 million). He succeeds Harry Winford Morrison, 75, who, with the late M. H. Knudsen (TIME cover, May 3, 1954), founded the company with $600 in cash 48 years ago and who will continue as chairman. San Francisco born. Jack Bonny started in the construction business after graduating from the University of California in 1925, joined Morrison-Knudsen in 1931, as a project manager. He became a vice president...
From Pontiac General Manager S. E. ("Bunky") Knudsen came word that in Pontiac's first three days in the showrooms, dealers delivered more than 6,000 of the 1960 models, and confirmed orders for another 17,359 cars. It was a performance, said Knudsen, that "shows promise of surpassing the 1959 model...
...Hearing that, Detroit wags recalled the time when Big Bill Knudsen, G.M.'s late president, boasted to Adman Bruce Barton that a certain new-model Chevy was "almost the perfect low-priced car-and it will really become perfect next year when we make one small change." Barton bit hard. "What change?" Deadpanned Bill Knudsen: "We're just going to hang a small hammock under the chassis. Catch all the goddam parts that fall...