Word: untilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But why wait until Americans are pulverized and bloodied by too much noise? If it is loud and continuous, doctors know, noise irreparably damages the microscopic hair cells that transmit sound from the ear to the brain, thus causing hearing loss. In addition, it almost certainly affects blood pressure, heartbeat...
Baron knows that most manufacturers will not produce such equipment unless assured of a large market. Nor will users buy it unless compelled to by law. He therefore devotes his time to publicizing the dangers of noise, hoping to push legislators into enacting effective new noise-abatement regulations. Until such...
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. has supported so many boycotts by member unions against employers that last summer President George Meany made a little joke about it. A loyal unionist's ultimate treason, he said, would be to eat grapes while flying over West Virginia in a National Airlines plane burning...
Imagine a room full of women trying their hardest to act the way your older sister, mother, or grandmother would act on their best behavior. After I filled out an application, a Harvard faculty wife took my temperature with the slowest thermometer in the world. Every five minutes she checked...
At the next stage dozens of donors were waiting to be screened by four or five nurses. There was no line. Instead, people just sat spaced out in two long rows until they felt they had really waited their turn. I did some light reading and struck up a conversation...