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...Levavasseur whistle that has no moving parts and can be made of heat-resistant material. The rocketeers figure that the best frequency to use is 10,000 cycles, about the pitch of a very high violin note. Yet the volume of sound must be well above the loudest fiddle; an ear-shattering 170 decibels, which is 100 times the sound pressure of a supersonic boom from a jet aircraft...
...first European to be world heavyweight boxing champion in 25 years, Sweden's Ingemar Johansson was soundly lionized last week. Vacationing in Florida before returning to Goteborg to enjoy the biggest and loudest victory celebration ever given a homecoming Swede, he drew hordes of females straining for a glimpse of his rugged Scandinavian features. "Ingo" went deep-sea fishing and just missed catching a sailfish, frolicked in a saltwater pool with pretty Birgit Lundgren. She squelched talk that she is Ingo's fiancee, characterized herself as just a good friend who travels with Johansson to take care...
...London Times was swamped with letters from outraged bunny lovers. Some of the loudest objectors were fox hunters. In the absence of their preferred prey, ravenous British foxes turned to moles, rats, blackberries and garbage cans. They lost the stamina they used to build up chasing rabbits, no longer led hunters off on the long, steady chases of old. Instead, they developed a tendency to head for the nearest suburb, leaving hunters embarrassedly clattering through backyards and garbage dumps. Another curious side effect: British buzzards, deprived of protein once obtained from rabbit carrion, suffered loss of fertility...
...word "integration," meaning that Algeria is as integral a part of France as Normandy? Said De Gaulle: "What have I done since I have been in power? In 1943 I gave the Moslems the right to vote. Isn't this already integration? Those who shout loudest for integration are the selfsame people who opposed this step then. What they want is for somebody to give them back Papa's Algeria. But Papa's Algeria is dead, and if they don't understand that, they will die with it. As for the word's political significance...
...cheeriest spring in years in Detroit, with the loudest notes of optimism coming from Ford. The company last week boosted its quarterly dividend from 40? to the 60? quarterly rate it was paying up until last fall; its first-quarter earnings will be more than $2.25 a share v. 42? last year. Ford's Vice President James Wright flatly predicted a 6,000,000-car year-the most optimistic projection this year. His optimism was based on the rising production of the industry (1,683,326 autos to date compared to 1,290,587 last year...