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...would only spur her on," and sat back to watch the other candidates struggle with the motherhood issue. As for Mrs. McCall, she is campaigning at her own pace. When a reporter arrived at her Portland home for an interview, he was sent away. The candidate was taking a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 4, 1974 | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

...indications are that William Levitt is getting a bargain and ITT is taking a bath. ITT bought the business for common stock then worth about $90 Billion: most of it went to Levitt as majority owner. The terms of his repurchase will not be disclosed until federal trustbusters approve them, but trade estimates are that he will pay ITT no more than $30 million, and possibly as little as $10 million, to get the company back, And he will be getting back a much bigger company than he sold. Levitt & Sons was a leader in its field when ITT bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Levitt's Buy-Back | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...romance into your bath by sharing the water," reads the ad. "You would be amazed how much gas you save." Appearing in English newspapers, the promotion is part of a fuel-conservation drive by a government-owned gas board-and it has provided gloomy, energy-short Britons with a diverting tempest in a bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flubbing the Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...moved the London tabloid, the Sun, to run a photo of a buxom model and her husband baring almost all in watery togetherness. It also inspired a cartoon portraying Prime Minister Edward Heath in a bath telling his butler: "Save gas or not, Perkins, I will not share a bath with Mick McGahey" (Communist official of the mineworkers union). The gas board itself was somewhat startled and not a little amused by the furor raised by the ad. "We never thought of the idea as kinky," said a board spokesman. Not everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flubbing the Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

What if your partner really needs a bath? The wife of a coal-truck driver said that bathing with her husband was carrying patriotism too far. If she did, she said, she would step out of the tub with a black ring around each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flubbing the Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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