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...leave The Last Fair Deal Going Down as from the complete cycle of a drug--reeling, dazed, and adjusting again to an old reality in a new way. The brooding silence of the Midwest is manic and never bucolic like it was. There may be a quieter, more determined explosion building up there--a tension less frenetic than the cities, less jaded than the South, and less crazily precarious than the Far West. The Middle West could begin to figure in American literature in a big way, and the heart of our country could become the backdrop for the heart...
...watch the Kinks in concert and appreciate them on a purely performing level. Your cursory familiarity with the hand won't save you here. Davies demands an appreciation that goes back to "All Day and All of the Night" a steady attention to development. Which makes Kinks fans quieter cultists than the fanatics who follow the Grateful Dead, but cultists nonetheless I didn't come into the Kinks until "Lola," and I'm no cultist but I grant myself a healthy appreciation of Ray Davies genius...
Expansion. One solution would be to reduce the hostility to airports by changing the nature of airplanes. If a much quieter plane could be developed -and engine manufacturers are beginning to muffle the thunder of the biggest new jets-then the major complaint against airports would be removed. Similarly, the development of a quiet STOL (for short take-off and landing) plane would make better use of short runways that either now exist (the U.S. has 12,000 airports, more than half of which are small, unlit fields) or could be built in strategic urban locations. In theory, the STOL...
...that runs from the threshold of hearing (1) through the level of hearing impairment (85 db, if continuous) to that of acute pain (135 db). (By comparison, normal conversation registers at about 55 db, a vacuum cleaner at 70 db, and a jet taking off at 118 db.) If quieter machinery does not yet exist, or is not now used in New York, the code requires it be developed or obtained before future deadlines. Among the rules...
...economic sore thumb" of the Nixon Administration. He promised a job for everyone, "though I can't spell this out line by line." The caution was advisable, since on his last visit to Washington he had pledged 25,000 new jobs if Boeing concentrated on building a quieter aircraft engine. That was possible, he now admitted, only if all the engines in all Boeing aircraft were converted-an unlikely prospect...