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Studies also show that noise adversely affects human efficiency. The Air Force's Dr. von Gierke says: "It impairs both manual dexterity and accuracy." A normally accurate, responsible aircraft mechanic may unconsciously rush, through his work, do a slipshod job, if he happens to be working in the neighborhood of a whining jet exhaust. When officials of Aetna Life Insurance Co. cut office noise levels 14.5% by installing acoustic wallboard, they found that typists' errors dropped 29%, machine operators' errors fell 52%, employee turnover decreased 47%, and absenteeism declined...
...traffic controllers are taught to use simple language; all use the same terms so pilots are not confused. Above all, they are never to get excited. "If a crash or emergency occurs," says the FAA manual, "you should not appear to be emotionally disturbed by it. The very act of continuing to use an efficient, competent and apparently unmoved voice will actually help you feel that way, too. It will instill confidence in others...
...Harvard plan, as it has now evolved, is probably the best of all possible "peace corps." It will give the beneficiaries the teachers they need, not the manual labor they don't know what to do with. Africa has no use for a massive American work camp, no matter what the spiritual benefits of such a project might be for the students who participated...
...youth service program, according a Berg, must concentrate on the schools rather than on construction or manual labor. Africa needs "teachers, not doers," he emphasized, and the secondary schools, which provide the "crucial layer of people with intermediate skills," are the great bottleneck in the continent's development...
...economy." Now it is called "the era of high-consumption" or "the affluent society," but the lesson's the same. Another way to express it is "a moral escape from boredom." Young men want that escape. In 1910, writing for an America not yet a world power, James prescribed manual labor in the U.S.-"fishing fleets in December... road-building and tunnel-making." That was a great era of economic expansion here. In 1960, young men, if given the chance, could do work abroad that would obviously be good. Unlike military life, the service could appear meaningful...