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...speeders with only prowl cars and radar traps, the Florida highway patrol has a three-plane air force. At a couple of dozen locations, Florida highways are festooned with white stripes a quarter-mile apart. Orbiting at altitudes of 800 ft. to 1,500 ft., a trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest. All of which goes...
...Otologist Glorig found in other experiments that factory employees made more mistakes both when noise was turned on and when it was turned off. Continuous music has been found to make cows give more milk, and to combat tedium and raise production in offices and factories. Muzak, a leading piper of auditory tonic, has different programs for factory (brassier), office (subtler), supermarket (a combination of the two), and travel, mainly for airplanes. Plane fare is carefully screened for content; Stormy Weather and I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You are out. Muzak once played...
Among today's grand array of orchestral instruments, the humble recorder - usually a foot-long wooden pipe with seven holes for the fingers and one for the thumb - looks like a pipsqueak. Yet its sweet warblings, wistful twitters and charming coos work such a Pied Piper spell over modern audiences that the recorder has become the fastest-rising instrument in the U.S. With more amateurs taking up the recorder than the violin, cello, viola and bass combined, the number of players has climbed from 100,000 in 1955 to 750,000 last year. The American Recorder Society now boasts...
Died. Walter E. Alessandroni, 51, Pennsylvania's able attorney general, a canny state politician who in 1962 masterminded William Scranton's successful gubernatorial campaign, and recently developed his own political ambitions as a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor next fall; in the crash of a Piper Aztec (along with his wife); in the Allegheny Mountains near Somerset, Pa. Whereupon Scranton and top state Republicans urged party members to vote for Alessandroni anyway in this week's primary in order to defeat his opponent, Goldwaterite Blair F. Gunther, which would enable Scranton to name a replacement...
...over,'' he warned in a mad melange of metaphor. 'The empire comes in by the back door, the front door and the side door. We may worship at the shrine of nonalignment, but if we throw away the content by letting the man who pays the piper call the tune, then there will be no nonalignment. So far as the U.S. is concerned, you do not get any more money by sucking up. If you want aid, don't beg them. Kick them...