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Most of these problems are sidestepped by a new method: putting the boat in a bubble bath for the winter. Marina owners have found that a simple ½-h.p. air compressor, humming away throughout the cold months, can be used to pump air through perforated tubing that lies on the bottom of the harbor. The resulting bubbles then rise and carry with them the relatively warmer water on the bottom-the same lower strata of water that keep fish alive through the winter. Thus constantly replenished by water from below, the surface is kept above the freezing point, even when...
...figures that found their way into leading museums and even into some less exalted shrines, most notably Radio City Music Hall, which in 1932 stirred an artistic furor by rejecting his Spirit of the Dance as "too nude" for its lobby, finally reinstated it; of a heart attack; in Bath, Maine...
...remark about "sophisticated" Harvard Yard indicates. There are two types of Harvard men, Jo Anne said with the smiling assent of the others. Either he's a clean-cut, with a black umbrella and a scarf (in a word, "preppie"), or he hasn't had a bath since September and he smells like...
Living conditions are admittedly rugged: a shared hotel room, rats, no bath tub, and electric power for perhaps two hours out of 24 in the boonies. Applicants, worried about tropical insects, are reassured that bugs and scorpions are no special problem. What Viet Nam has in abundance, says Nurse Dorothy De Looff, just back from two years in Saigon, is lizards. "But you don't have to worry about them," she tells applicants. "They sing, they eat the insects and they're very friendly. You'll miss them when you come home...
...Eileen Atkins) is a long, pale taffy pull of a girl with the cringing whine of an eternal sycophant and the wily compliance of a slave. At the arbitrary whim of Sister George, Childie must kneel and kiss the hem of her master's skirt, drink her dirty bath water or chew and swallow one of her soggy cigar butts. Childie's fraud is that while she plays the lesbian, she lusts after men and cheats on Sister George...