Word: soundproof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stanford and Michigan State-to work exclusively on doors. Ford, Chrysler and G.M. test and refine their thunks in soundproof chambers that are sealed like bank vaults. Stereo tapes are used to record the effects that subtle design changes have on the sound. High-speed movies are made to study vibrations, and oscilloscopes gauge the thunk's duration. The automakers also employ automatic slamming machines, which create sounds ranging from what G.M.'s Hedeen calls the "angry-wife slam" to the "husband-coming-home-late-at-night slam." The former is 50 foot-pounds, and the latter three...
...seven quiet years, Ira Dennison, an upstate New York businessman, found the Adirondack Mountains over-looking Lake George a virtually soundproof haven from his workaday world. Then bulldozers rumbled onto his property, and the bosky dreamland in front of his colonial homestead became a concrete nightmare. Once remote and inaccessible, his hideaway was partly absorbed by a new exit for the six-lane Albany-to-Montreal Northway...
...Soundproof Sanctum. Explaining the social void that The Factory fills, Peter Lawford says: "We needed a place to hang our hats. The Factory has turned out to be a big hatstand with lots of hats; but before we started it, outside of discotheques, there was really no place to go that served good food and stayed open late." As he sees it, The Factory's main achievement has been "melding the dinner jackets and the blue jeans. You dig? No one is embarrassed; nobody cares." Brightening the ambiance no end is the fact that some of Hollywood...
...Russell, Barbra Streisand, Sonny and Cher, Dress Designer Jimmy Galanos, Financier Bart Lytton, and Fullback-turned-Actor Jim Brown, who tells friends he feels at home at The Facto ry, proves it by rarely missing an evening. As for The Factory's founders, they have their own soundproof inner sanctum-soon to be opened to the membership at large-which is at present the one place where Factory-goers can converse without shouting...
...more in commercial broadcasting. Top man is General Manager James Day, who dates back to the 1953 beginnings, when KQED was headquartered in the back seat of a station wagon. Today, the channel's offices are three splintering wooden warehouses near Skid Row. The studios are not even soundproof (fire engines offer contrapuntal competition...