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...Rock Creek Park, the police cavalry, worried lest its horses should react violently to the roar of the parade and crowds, spent hours conditioning the mounts by feeding them heavy doses of Spike Jones recordings over loudspeakers. As a result, by Inauguration Day the horses were immune to noise, but the cops were nervous wrecks. Parade officials put on a small-scale dry run down Pennsylvania Avenue, pronounced everything satisfactory. They arranged for a helicopter to hover over the parade and radio traffic information to an Army-run command post. There, in a van off Pennsylvania Avenue, a control center...
When she said this, the old man was silent for a minute. Then he broke into a roar of laughter." The clan was enchanted with Jackie's thoughtful Christmas gifts-beautifully bound books, her own bright, primitive paintings (executed in a manner that suggests a liaison between Raoul Dufy and Grandma Moses)-and soon stood in awe of her because she had the stamina to stand up for her own tastes. "They seem proud if I read more books, and of the things I do differently. The very things you think would alienate them bring you closer to them...
...three square-headed giants had no eyes and indeed no faces, but they somehow lived up to their name, The Watchers. Elsewhere in Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week, a Lion seemed to roar through a megaphone mouth, eerie beasts trotted around on spiky iron legs, and headless winged figures danced an unearthly ballet. The menagerie was the work of a burly, mussed-looking man named Lynn Chadwick, at 46 a major talent in the new wave of British sculptors who followed, but did not take after, the great Henry Moore...
...Where the Boys Are describes one of the more frantic phenomena of the affluent society: the annual Spring-Ding or Florida Flip of the book-bashed, sun-starved North American undergraduate. Come Easter vacation, students from all over the Northeast and Midwest pile into anything that holds gas and roar south. In recent years, more than 20,000 of these "migratory shirkers" have settled for the two-week season in Fort Lauderdale, and there the camera finds them-soaking up sun and beer, sleeping twelve to a motel cell or two to a car trunk, and assiduously playing the great...
What concerns blunt, balding Dr. Knudsen-and many another U.S. scientist-is that the U.S., already perhaps the loudest nation in the world, is growing still noisier. Ever more numerous jet planes scream overhead, unmuffled trucks roar through city streets, sports cars whine along once placid suburban roads, and missile-age workers are being exposed to the highest and most dangerous noise levels in history. "Noise," says Physicist Knudsen, "is the bane of our existence...