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Some communities are starting to enforce antinoise ordinances more vigorously. New York City, arguably the noisiest urban center in the country, issued 1,000 citations last year, up from 700 in 1988, primarily targeting air-conditioning equipment, discos, street construction machinery and horn blowing. In Southern California, police in National City and Redondo Beach have been empowered to confiscate big speakers installed in autos to make them what are known as "boom cars." Says officer Michael Harlan of National City: "If we hear a boom car 50 ft. or more away on a public street, we can cite the driver...
...noisiest Vietnam poltergeists, of course, is the draft. Since the Iraqi invasion in August, Army recruiting has fallen off considerably. Many of those opposed to American military action fear that a gulf war would revive conscription. "If they come after my son," an Orlando mother vows, using language from another era, "I am going to send him to Canada...
...medal competition for viewers to judge: Which fans will be the noisiest, those watching the soccer (cheering perhaps for Italy, West Germany, Brazil) or those at table tennis rooting for Chinese Superstar Jiang Jialiang? Veteran Captain Karch Kiraly will lead the U.S. into what could be these Games' final confrontation with the U.S.S.R.: on the volleyball court. While most of the U.S. sleeps, Kenya's Douglas Wakiihuri and Djibouti's Ahmed Salah should be leading home a wide-open marathon field...
...green markers....The oldest player in the pool was a 27-year old Dartmouth medical school student. The Big Green has a "club team," making anybody eligible to play for them. His wife and baby sat in the stands....The crowd of 50 was Harvard's biggest and noisiest of the season...
...noisiest liberalization is a controlled cacophony emanating from the more than 800 private radio stations that crowd the FM radio band. Their size varies from that of Radio Service Tour Eiffel, a 1,500-watt operation that is indirectly backed by Paris Mayor Chirac, to Radio Panorama, operated by a baker and his wife with a 500-watt transmitter in their garage in suburban Vitry-sur-Seine. The private stations have taken an estimated 20% of the audience away from the five established, and at least partly state-controlled, stations that monopolized the air waves until 1982. Surveying everything from...