Word: sirene
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Many a Clevelander was apprehensive while the new tunnel was under construction. Lesser tunnels at the same site jangled nerves with their dreadful racket. This tunnel has an enormous muffler in which even the loudest sounds get lost. A screaming siren can be carried into the muffler and become inaudible in a few yards. When the tunnel is in operation, its noise is reduced to levels acceptable at least to N.A.C.A.'s hardened neighbors. The tunnel works-late at night only, so its inordinate thirst for electricity will not slow the city of Cleveland...
...wealthy lush who catapulted his Jaguar into the swimming pool ("Every time I go swimming, I keep tasting gin and ethyl"). There was the child-hating old woman who, for the Easter egg hunt, hid the eggs deep in the local cacti. There was the would-be siren on a man spree whom Barbara dubbed "Miss Ladydog." And there were a few prize phonies whom Barbara learned to shun by the chromium on their cars and the fact that their "checks were least likely to succeed...
...language to which Pravda readers are accustomed, is as useful as a 20-year treaty of friendship. Set side by side with smiling photographs, it will doubtless convince the Russian and satellite peoples that Britain, along with India, Burma and the rest, has fallen for Moscow's new siren song...
Married. Marisa Pavan, 23, lissome Italian film star (The Rose Tattoo), twin sister of Cinemactress Pier Angeli; and Jean Pierre Aumont (real name: Jean Pierre Salomons), 46, wavy-haired French actor (The Heavenly Twins, Lili); she for the first time, he for the second (his first: the late Cinema Siren Maria Montez); in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Siren Song. In Dearborn, Mich., Public Safety Commissioner Marguerite C. Johnson announced that the feminine touch will soon extend to the city's police cars: "They'll be in assorted colors, and they'll be beauties-pretty reds, pinks, blues, greens and other shades; even the word police will be in complementary tones. Black is so drab...