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...came a different cacophony. Werzansky's new, ultra-Orthodox neighbors had set up a loudspeaker and were broadcasting sermons from a rented house they had turned into a synagogue. Infuriated, the community's secular majority retaliated, organizing a weekly Sabbath-night disco in the next house to outblast the worshippers. A fire bombing and a melee soon followed...
...highway I would look at people in other cars heading south and they'd look at me. Sometimes we exchanged smiles and waved, then one driver would speed up and they disappeared. I would sit back and listen to the radio outblast the highway wind, wondering who they were, where they were going and thinking that maybe they were listening to the same song, wondering about...
...Israel. For a correspondent covering the campaign, this was a great convenience; but for the mother of two small children (Monica is the wife of London Timesman David Roy Elston), it was a towering nuisance. Before rallies, campaign managers spent half the nights tuning up loudspeakers, one to outblast the other. One midnight some 50 babies of the neighborhood could be heard bawling as loudspeakers blared over and over: "One, two, three . . . One two three...
...foot wooden cup which focuses the siren's shriek into a single noise beam, instead of throwing it to the four winds, and the reflector rotates the beam, like the beam of a lighthouse. With a small two-h.p. siren, Kirsten's reflector will outblast and outdistance any of Seattle's factory-made sirens. Kirsten believes that a 12-h.p. siren, parabolically beamed, would be heard 30 miles away; and three of them would startle Seattle as effectively as the 32 ordinary sirens which the city has ordered from Eastern manufacturers...
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