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Star of David. The kibbutz is run along strict Israeli lines; members carry no money, present lists of their personal requirements, are assigned to the day's work groups as the need arises. The nine babies live in the communal nursery; parents are allowed to take them home and play with them for an hour each evening and on Sunday afternoons...
...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...
...flour sacks, often trudged along the nearby railroad tracks in winter to gather stray lumps of coal. But the parents had something more valuable than material advantages to give. "We grew up," recalls Dean's elder brother Roger, a University of Tennessee physics professor, "in a strict atmosphere of moral integrity, imposed by both parents and schoolteachers. We were under constant admonition to excel, to go out in the world and do something. Be different, do your best, they told us. We were always striving for excellence...
Both planes had entered the New York area under clearance from Air Route Traffic Control center at Idlewild. In the heavy weather, both had been ordered to follow strict holding patterns while awaiting clearance to land: the TWA Connie at 6,000 ft. over Linden, N.J., south of Newark Airport; the DC-8 at 5,000 ft. in a stacking area over Preston check point, more than five miles south of Linden. As traffic moved, ARTC controllers directed the TWA plane to drop to 5,000 ft. and then, proceeding under control of La Guardia, to swing northeastward into...
...chief risk in using manatees is that they are locally considered very good eating and so are apt to be surreptitiously turned into steaks and chops. Allsopp hopes to get strict legislation to protect both wild and tame manatees from this fate. But his chief remaining problem is how to multiply his gentle servants, who, left to their own devices, seem to be both slow and unenthusiastic in reproduction...