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...Phillips Brooks House rally in Harvard Yard yesterday, said he sees a parallel between the PBH rally and this evening's planned vigil. "The same rationale which leads Harvard to sit on its students leads them to respond to the city council in the way that they did," Meecham said...
Santini isn't his real name; it's the nom de guerre (literally) of "Bull" Meecham, Marine colonel, pilot extraordinaire, drunk and practical joker, outrageous egomaniac, and father of a large family which he likes to run like a boot camp. Ben, his oldest boy, is a gentle soul who's beginning to chafe under the discipline, to say nothing of his father's determination to mold him in his own macho image...
Aero-acoustics Expert William Meecham of the U.C.L.A. School of Engineering and Applied Science reports that people who reside within a 3-mile radius of Los Angeles International Airport have a 19% higher death rate than people who live six miles away. Most of the difference was in stress-related disease. Meecham's target group of about 80,000 people in the Inglewood and Lennox sections near the airport was compared with a control group similar in number, age, income and racial balance. The target group had 40% more fatal strokes and 140% more deaths from cirrhosis...
...regional official of the Federal Aviation Administration suggested that other, as yet undetermined, factors besides noise may account for the higher death rate. That may be, Meecham acknowledges, but he notes that 220 extra deaths were recorded in the high-noise areas last year. The odds against that kind of difference occurring by chance, he argues, are a thousand...
...prolong its already lengthy undefeated record, the Freshman hockey team met with disappointment and a 4-2 defeat yesterday at the hands of St. Paul's six. Playing creditable hockey during the first and third periods, the Yardlings collapsed in the second to lot the schoolboys, spearheaded by Dick Meecham, net the puck three times. George Gebelein scored unassisted for the Freshmen with St. Paul's ahead 3-0 in the second, and Pop Jenks, assisted by Hackett and Apthorp, produced the third period's only goal...