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When he is through speaking, the crowds engulf him, clutching at his arms, reaching over his shoulders to grasp his hand, clapping him on the back. "You're wonderful!" women cry. Men shout, "Good luck!" He is besieged for autographs. Reagan is not a compulsive crowd plunger, like Nelson Rockefeller, or an irrepressible hand grabber, like Lyndon Johnson. By nature he is almost reticent. At a factory gate, he will often wait with hands limp at his sides, nodding a .bit awkwardly at passers-by until someone recognizes him. Then, on center stage, Reagan's face lights...
...sends a wild, keening cluster of notes soaring over the surging rhythms like gulls over an angry sea. Crammed around tables in front of the bandstand, the listeners-mostly working-class Negroes, down-and-outers and hustlers-stomp their feet, and shimmy in their seats. "Tell it, boy!" they shout. "That...
Just about everyone swears on occasion. But some people are cursed with a pathological need to curse-and uncontrollably shout obscenities every few minutes. Accompanied by a violent muscular tic, their singular malady is called the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome for the French neurologist who first described it in 1884. The disease is rare, but its smutty symptoms turn its victims into social pariahs, and sometimes the psychological disorder leads them to mental institutions...
...hazard with earphones, which can easily develop 135 decibels with the volume turned up all the way; but the living-room listener is safe. Ear-fearful citizens can tell when to start worrying by three Glorig rules of thumb. If a noise is loud enough to make people shout into one another's ears, or if it causes a slight temporary hearing loss, or if it brings on ringing in the ears, it can cause damage...
...occupancy. When Physicist Dirac's thoughtful walks were disturbed by a trailing dog, the staff sniffed out its owners, asked them to keep it at home. Even the members' own children are banned from the Institute's eight small, mostly red brick buildings, can run and shout only in the nearby faculty "project," which consists of two-story garden apartments. The passion for privacy is so great that Greek Historian Harold Cherniss, whose secretary recently failed to block a telephone call, barked into the phone: "This interruption is an outrage...