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Acknowledgments
The author is very grateful to the late Marvin Lasky, formerly with the Ofce
of Naval Research, for his guidance and encouragement when the author
worked on structural acoustics under contract to the U.S. Navy. The author
would also like to express his gratitude to Sonia Looban Greenspon, his
wife, for editing and typing the manuscript, and to his daughter and son-
in-law Ellen and Saul Singer for all of their assistance in the preparation of
this book.