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...With these," says Dr. Robert Feder, a Beverly Hills ear specialist, "everything is reamplified many times, and the noise becomes nearly intolerable." Dr. Victor Goodhill of Hollywood reports that sound levels in many rock-'n'-roll night clubs soar to 125 db. Dr. Charles P. Lebo of the University of California took measuring instruments into two San Francisco rock-'n'-roll joints, where the cacophony was produced mainly by amplified guitars and percussion instruments (see diagram). Throughout the audible-speech range, Lebo found that the sound intensity averaged over 100 db at virtually all frequencies...
Final Fling. Nonetheless, the old showman is not giving up. There are schemes to make L.B.J.'s last days in office soar. Aides are studying history to gain insights from predecessors, but the findings are disappointing. Eisenhower traveled widely and issued a warning against the military-industrial complex. But Kennedy was murdered, Truman disdained, Roosevelt died in office, and Hoover was in discredit...
...laws, and that the governed sometimes detect the difference before their governors. Before his unhappy resignation as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John Gardner observed: "Once the grip of tradition or apathy or oppression has been broken and people can hope for a better life, their aspirations soar. But the institutions that must satisfy these aspirations change at the same old glacial speed...
Giggling, he takes the uke from its old cardigan wrapper. Plink-a-plank-aplink. His thin, reedy tones soar into an unearthly falsetto, the vibrato voice quavering like a hummingbird's wings: "Come tiptoe through the tulips with me . . ." In the audience, as at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium last week, his listeners are rapt, incredulous, amused-everything but indifferent...
Pole-vaulter Steve Schoonover may finally soar over the 16 ft. mark. He's been disappointing his fans for two years, but McCurdy feels that today's meet...