Word: soundproofing
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...cities." Designed by Modernist Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the project consists of two 29-story skyscrapers on one site, four 28-story structures about a mile away. The six buildings, clad in aluminum and tinted glass, will have 1,283 apartments, offer such luxury features as airconditioning, soundproof walls, double-oven kitchen ranges, and valet service. Rentals will range from $100 (for one room, dressing room, kitchenette and bath) to $700 (for a twelve-room apartment). To be built in 18 months, the glass cities will cost an estimated $25 million, partially financed by an $11 million...
...soundproof and functional as modern engineering can make them, the building units are ordinarly divided into three sections: two fraternities with a dormitory section between them. The heavy metal partitions which separate the three are movable, allowing the fraternities to expand or contract according to their yearly membership without loss of money or space to the College...
...operating room itself, walled in apple-green glass tile, is soundproof, dustproof, conditioned by gravity-fed air, and as nearly germproof and explosion-proof as human ingenuity can make it. Above the operating table, which can be tilted six ways, is a television camera (nested in a battery of lights) with lenses for closeup, normal and wide-view shots. The surgeons, anesthesiologist and physiologist wear combination stethoscope-intercom receivers...
...their soundproof hearing room, members of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy broke a three-month deadlock (TIME, March 23). By unanimous vote last week, they elected New York's Representative W. Sterling Cole as their chairman and Iowa's Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper as vice chairman...
...exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is called the Institute of Sex Research, Inc. The atmosphere is one of surgical asepsis, and each room is as clean and functional as the inside of a clock. Doors are heavy, made of a three-ply, soundproof material, and they have substantial locks. Kinsey carries numerous keys, and his progress from room to room, cabinet to cabinet, or file to file, is slow, because each has to be unlocked carefully. In Kinsey's own office, no single piece of paper is ever in evidence unless...