Word: santas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Santa Barbara, Calif., is a pleasant, red-tile-roofed community much favored by retired couples, but of late it has acquired a grave drawback: it is in close proximity to several Navy and Air Force bases, including Hamilton Air Force Base now being used by the over-2,000-m.p.h. SR-71 reconnaissance plane. As a result, Santa Barbara, by the count of one irate citizen, was bombed with a sonic boom for 75 successive days this summer. "It's ghastly," says Mrs. George M. Sidenberg, both the wife and mother of Navy aviators. "One boom nearly threw...
...wall; girls in the suburban Montecito Post Office live in fear the next boom will shatter their office's plate glass window; and Archie Banks, who watches for booms on his seismograph, says that they leave tracks on the recording drums like those of minor earthquakes. In response, Santa Barbarans have been bombarding city hall to do something. Last week city hall did. By a vote of 6-1, the city council passed an ordinance declaring a sonic boom an "unlawful public nuisance," with fines up to $500 or 60 days in jail...
...with some inconveniences for defense and research-and besides, this ordinance is unenforceable." Not even the ban's supporters seriously thought they were going to catch supersonic culprits up in the air, but they did hope it would at least serve as a precedent. Says Santa Barbara City Attorney Stanley Tomlinson: "I know we'll come in for some kidding about this, but it's high time somebody somewhere spoke out against this darned nuisance...
...Thus Santa Barbara became the first municipality to ban the boom, but it is far from being alone in discovering that it could not live with the boom without hating it. Unlike noise from a subsonic jet, which builds up gradually as the plane approaches, sonic boom comes as a bang without warning...
...specials coming up the same week next month-as host of NBC's high-rating annual Ice Follies show and as Ferrovius in a Richard Rodgers musical adaptation of Androcles and the Lion. There are offers to appear with a Utah Shakespeare company and the Santa Fe Opera, and RCA Victor is preparing a new record album called Christmas with Ed Ames...