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...solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized cylinder was installed in the air-conditioning outlets. "The resulting steady whoosh raised the level of background noise and made the offices quieter-freer of distraction," said Newman. At M.I.T., when the library's noisy air blowers were turned off, students looked up whenever a phone rang or someone checked out a book...
...before the U.N.'s major drive). But there was plenty of shooting, especially when the U.N. planes swooped down on the city from their Kamina base, 260 miles away. In a quiet, bungalow-lined side street, where some of the remaining white housewives strolled with their children, the whoosh of a low-flying U.N. jet brought sudden pandemonium as Katanga soldiers and hastily armed civilians jumped from their cars or stepped off the sidewalk to fire excitedly with pistols, tommy guns and rifles...
...first siren whoosh of the commercial jetliner not only changed man's notion of time and travel by shrinking the earth some 40%, but set off an earth-bound revolution that is transforming the whole façade and function of the jet age's gateway: the airport. Nations and cities are taking a searching second look at the airports that served the piston-plane age -and finding them wanting. The result is an immense worldwide building boom to adapt them to the new and challenging problems-for pilots, passengers and cities -of the 600 m.p.h. jet planes...
...peaceful drive through farmland suddenly turns into a daymare as the customer gets what he's paid for. Caught in the core of a twister, he looks up to see barn doors, bodies, toilet seats, privy doors, cows, etc., whirling about his head in the howl and whoosh of a wind machine. The illusion is complete, as the tourist car actually moves slowly across the interior of a huge drum that spins at 75 revolutions per minute...
Still, the Met's show proves that pictures can be art even if picture takers have no pedigree as artists. It also gives proof again of what a versatile instrument the camera has become. It can encompass seas or explore a drop of ink, suggest the whoosh of motion, record the moment that a cluster of hands falls into an unforgettable pattern or the mood evoked when a great critic pauses to contemplate an art treasure. Two pictures that were favorites of the judges happened to be snapped by amateurs. Manhattan's William Froelich, an ex-electronics salesman...