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Bench Mark. The purpose of all this activity will be to establish a bench mark showing conditions on the earth, the sun and in the space in between during the sun's quietest time. During Iksee, most of the sun's effects on earth will not be noticed by nonscientific people, especially those who live in cities. There will be fewer auroras, which are caused by charged particles from the excited sun tangling with the top of the earth's atmosphere. There will be no magnetic storms to jam long-range communication, but radio amateurs will have...
...suspicion that "there is a disintegration of the fabric of the modern world which is so far advanced that the conventional novel no longer makes sense." But his vision of rotting fabric broods over the novel. The hero, a likable, intelligent stockbroker surrounded from horizon to horizon by the quietest of despairs, expresses his predicament with irony: "It is a pleasure to carry out the duties of a citizen and to receive in return a receipt on a neat styrene card with one's name on it certifying, so to speak, one's right to exist. What satisfaction...
...result of the weather was London's quietest New Year's Eve in recent memory. Only a few hardy souls gathered in Piccadilly Circus for the traditional singing of Auld Lang Syne. There were 162 arrests, mostly for throwing snowballs at policemen. A Daily Herald columnist discovered another social effect of the snow blitz. In mock horror, he reported that "five total strangers talked to me in the blizzard on the station platform...
Coming Round. The quietest people on campus were Students Holmes and Charlayne Hunter, well aware that the mob-sparked expulsion of Negro Coed Autherine Lucy* from the University of Alabama in 1956 was clinched by her charge that it was a frame-up. Last week their calm paid off. On the first day, they were each convoyed by one university official and two detectives, on the second by one detective trailing 30 feet behind, and on the third day they walked alone. By week's end, they were almost ignored...
...bright spots in the U.S. is somnolent Memphis, which has won 14 "Quietest City" awards from the National Noise Abatement Council for a strict program that requires thrice-yearly inspection of car brakes and mufflers, permits horn honking only in emergencies, and prescribes fines for people who keep noisy pets. But more needs to be done, says Physicist Knudsen: "The reduction of noise results in increases in output of labor and in human well-being that usually more than justify the cost of reducing the noise...