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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elders, and perhaps they never have. But now it develops that with many of them, the reason may be medical. The young aren't listening because they can't hear. Just as nagging parents have long suspected, otologists now report that youngsters are going deaf as a result of blasting their eardrums with electronically amplified rock 'n' roll...
...hearing specialists used to worry about loud noise as a cause of deafness only in industrial and military situations. They knew that eight hours of daily exposure, year in and year out, to the din of the proverbial boiler factory would eventually result in permanent, irreversible hearing loss. Riveters were particularly susceptible. Then they learned that the same thing happened to aviators. And after the advent of jets, the hazard applied to ground crews at airports and flight-deck personnel aboard aircraft carriers-hence the introduction of insulated, noise-absorbing plastic earmuffs...
Villain Amplifiers. From industrial and military experience, the experts set certain standards for safety. Any prolonged exposure to a noise level above 85 decibels will eventually result in a loss of hearing acuity for sounds in the frequency range most important for understanding human speech. This range is roughly from 256 cycles per second, the pitch of middle C, to about 2,000 c.p.s., or the C three octaves higher. Acuity is impaired even earlier for higher pitches, such as violin overtones...
...story appeared-which happened to be a Friday-the Westchester Business Journal conducted a similar survey. It phoned the top six executives at the Wall Street Journal to see if they took their own paper's advice. Executive Vice President Buren H. McCormack answered the phone. The result of five other calls, made a few minutes after 4 p.m.: "William F. Kerby, president, was 'gone for the day' an assistant said. Robert Bottorff, vice president, was 'on vacation.' Vermont Royster, the editor, was 'gone for the day,' his secretary said. Warren H. Phillips...
...Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther, Gallic gumshoe Jacques Clouseau was played by Peter Sellers with his overfamiliar banana-peel approach to comedy. In Inspector Clouseau, Arkin follows meticulously in his predecessor's flatfootsteps, but the result is only a parody of a parody...