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...nearly everyone's astonishment, District Court Judge Howard Corcoran granted a temporary restraining order to allow a three-judge appeals panel to deal with the constitutional question. Corcoran's action was unprecedented-no judge had ever before enjoined a congressional committee hearing-and it brought a roar of protest from Congressmen. Just before the hearing was to open, a three-judge panel, including Corcoran himself, dissolved the injunction and put off the constitutional question for future deliberation...
...delicate an instrument is the human ear that at certain frequencies it can discern sound that moves the eardrum a distance only one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom. The close-up roar of a jet engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced...
...noise violations. The rubber, plastic-or leather-guarded garbage can is commonplace in London, Paris and Berlin-an improvement that could hush Manhattan's most characteristic and deafening early-morning sound. Bermuda has instituted the quiet motorbike. Outboard motors are losing their bark; truck mufflers that kill the roar are available...
...about it. Noisier still are the so-called heat pumps, those outside installations housing large fans to fill the house with heated air in winter, cooled air in summer. Heat pumps recently installed at a housing development at Irvington, N.Y., so overheated nearby residents with their throbbing roar 'that the town banished devices developing more than 45 decibels as measured at the nearest property line...
Momentarily, the crowd quieted. Then the public-address system boomed: "A new world's record . . ." The roar that followed almost drowned out the announcement of Ryun's time. The judges had clocked him at 3 min. 51.3 sec.-a fantastic 2.3 sec. faster than Jazy's year-old record...