Word: soundproofing
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Along with his fellow astronauts, Shepard submitted on the ground to all the possible privations of space flight. He walked on endless treadmills, sat with his feet in ice water, endured two hours in a room heated to 130°F. and three hours in a soundproof, totally dark chamber. He took countless psychological tests. His torso was tattooed to mark the spots where electrodes would be attached for medical measurement...
Moving now into advanced training. Glenn, Grissom and Shepard will undergo even more rigorous physical and mental testing. They will spend two hours in a superheated chamber (130° F.), withdraw into a dark, soundproof room for hours at a time to test their ability to endure isolation, and will be exposed to piercing, high-frequency noises. They will also get extra time in the capsule simulator, a grounded version of the real space chamber, where engineers will pose a variety of possible equipment failures and the astronauts will have to deal with them...
Factory or School? Run by "master" career teachers (earning $15,000 a year, Trump proposes) and assistants, this sort of schedule requires a different kind of school planning. Though acoustics are a problem (no really soundproof movable partition has been perfected), flexible walls can help turn the trick. One arresting example is Architect John Lyon Reid's new (1958) Mills High School in Millbrae, Calif. Though built to stand 100 years, Mills follows an industrial "loft plan" in which none of the interior walls is structural. By adjusting a few nuts and bolts, walls can be shifted overnight...
...economic reports that flow from the nation's banks are rarely distinguished for what Will Rogers called "plain talk-in'," often seem to have been written in a soundproof room full of adding machines. Last week readers of the monthly Business Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia got a pleasant surprise. In a report on "The Business Outlook," Economist John R. Bunting Jr. took off after those who believe that another recession is either on the way or inevitable. "The national mood," said Bunting, "is changing. The cycle doesn't have to repeat itself. This...
...Diem's closest adviser is a fourth brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu, whose pretty wife is a member of the National Assembly and the country's leading feminist. Nhu, intellectual, articulate, smooth, has all the qualities Diem lacks. Though he holds no government position, Nhu works in a soundproof palace office, surrounded by books and stuffed animal heads. Diem takes Brother Nhu's advice on army promotions, government appointments and business contracts. One, of Nhu's pet projects is the Can Lao Nhan Vi (Revolutionary Labor Party), whose 70,000 "underground" members throughout the nation spend much...