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...Parchment High last month. Dr. Kehoe failed to observe the deficiency of the school library, which needs $15,000 worth of new books. He concentrated on the present 52-ft.-by-311ft, music room, which in his view does not meet N.C.A. standards. The school, said he, needs a soundproof band room, practice rooms, and a room for storing instruments and uniforms...
...from Home. Their temporary home is a "molehole" adjacent to the Christmas Tree. It is a square, white (for thermal reflection) concrete structure entered through green corrugated steel tubes. It is partially blastproof (most of the 72 duty flight and ground crewmen live in the underground section) and completely soundproof. The area is guarded at the barbed-wire fences by police dogs and armed sentries. The guards even have a secret code-by voice or glance-to cover the possibility that an airman might enter in the company of a saboteur who has an unseen...
...system consists of two soundproof and weatherproof corridors, red-carpeted and glass-enclosed, which extend from the terminal at plane-door level on a high, fixed base. First-class passengers enter a short jetwalk that leads to the plane's front door via a short gondola that slides to the door on a monorail. Other passengers walk a longer distance along a jet-walk that runs parallel to the plane, enter the rear door through a telescoping corridor that can be moved out to the door on wheels. Both devices are operated electrically from a console that can raise...
...crack counterintelligence service in 1945 when he was only 33. Under him, the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire spread so far, wide and mysteriously that it was once described as "a gigantic spider web, in the middle of which waits Wybot, his pipe in his mouth, in his soundproof office on the Rue des Saussaies." Some said that Wybot had compiled so many compromising dossiers that no French politician would ever dare to oust...
...gravity, placed for one hour in a pressure chamber at a simulated altitude of 65,000 ft., then in a heat chamber (temperature: 130°F.) for two hours. Each was bombarded with a cacophony of piercing noises and incredible high-frequency sounds, also shut into a dark, soundproof room for three hours to measure his adaptability to isolation. Before, during, and after these tests came perhaps the most thorough physical examinations ever devised-plus a total of three doses of castor oil, five enemas. Which was the worst part of the tests? Answered one Astronaut, Marine Lieut. Colonel John...