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...rifles and a field patrol device which detects raiders by radar. And there is increasing support near by-an on-call Marine battalion in Puerto Rico, a U.S. fleet now stationed regularly off Guantánamo Bay, and the carrier-based, swept-wing F4H Phantom II jet fighters whose sonic booms are clearly audible in Castroland...
...three. It is the thunderclap of a sonic boom produced by a supersonic aircraft, and the nerve-ragging whine and roar of jetliners as they take off and land. Together they add up to a sore domestic problem that will increase in quantum jumps in the years ahead...
...Sonics and Suits. This possibility had not occurred to the majority of groundlings in the U.S. until last week, when a Supreme Court decision lowered a sonic boom of its own. Ruled the court in a 7-2 decision: local airport authorities are liable for damages if aircraft noise and vibration make life miserable for homeowners who live near an airport...
With posies for the boss's secretary and ruses for the boss, J. Pierpont goes sonic. The boss is "J.B." Bigley, a pince-nezed P.G. Wodehouse caricature of a corporation president, which is precisely the way ex-Crooner Rudy Vallee (age: 60) plays him. J.B. knits for relaxation; Finch ar ranges to be caught knitting. J.B. warms, bumble-tongued, to his dedicated under ling: "I like the way you thinch, Fink." Naturally, there are booby traps in the corridors of power. There is J.B.'s nephew, Frump (Charles Nelson Reilly), who has the looks and the instincts...
...Force Lieut. Gustav Klatt in an RF-101 Voodoo jet. The winning time, posted by Lieut. Richard Gordon Jr. and Lieut, (j.g.) Bobbie Young: 2 hr. 47 min. In New Jersey and New York, angry householders complained that the sonic booms from the swift-flying planes had also cracked assorted crockery and windows...