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Microphones for use in noisy places, e.g., military aircraft, have always been a headache for acoustic engineers. If placed close in front of the mouth, they pick up a great deal of "ambient" noise, as well as sounds that come from the wearer's breathing. Throat microphones are noisy, too, and not ideally intelligible. Both types can be a nuisance to the wearer and interfere with other equipment...
...beauty of the system is that an ear microphone does not get in the wearer's way and is easy to isolate from noise around it. The Ohio scientists tested the intelligibility of ear speech by giving six men the same test sentence to speak through both ears and mouth. When the outside noise level was low, both kinds of speech came over well, but as the noise was increased, ear speech forged ahead...
...airplane pilot will probably listen through one ear and talk through the other. The whole apparatus will be tightly enclosed in his helmet. Outside noise will have a hard time working its way into this communication system, which is almost as private as if it were entirely inside the wearer's head...
...dresses, among them: "Full coverage for the bodice, chest, shoulders, back and arms," no cutouts lower than two inches below the neckline, no transparent or flesh-colored materials to give the impression of nudity, sleeves halfway between shoulder and elbow, nothing that will "unduly reveal the figure of the wearer...
...grown fashion, as different from Paris fashion as apple pie from crepes suzette. Paris can still claim its title as the custom-fashion capital of the world. But the French still design for Veblenesque leisure. Their clothes compliment the designer, whereas America's are made to compliment the wearer. A young Manhattan mother put it simply: "When I get dressed up, I have little time to make up to the dress; I want the dress to make...