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...sharply increasing demands for shelter, many big corporations are devising cost-cutting ways to snare a share of the market. Urban Systems Development Corp., a newly formed subsidiary of Westinghouse Electric, is building a project of 100 town houses in Montgomery County, Md. Crane Co. is building whole bathrooms, and Borg-Warner has devised a bathroom-kitch-en module for use in slum rehabilitation. Both United States Gypsum and National Gypsum Co. have experimented with rehabilitation, and U.S.G. branched out earlier this year by investing $1,000,000 in a Memphis firm that aims to build large projects...
...change ladders." A more far-reaching chore is that of doing something about bathtubs, which might make a lot more sense if they were equipped with reclining backs, more handholds and nonslip surfaces. The number of man-hours that anthropometric professionals have spent inside experimental bathtubs is incalculable, but bathroom plumbing has generally resisted comfort-making changes in design...
...seesaw performances during most of the '60s, apartment construction is making a comeback that surprises economists, delights landlords, and quite possibly signals a fundamental shift in how most Americans will choose to live in the years ahead. "Demand is so strong that you could almost leave out the bathroom and rent a new apartment," says California Developer Gerson Bakar, whose 994-unit Woodlake Apartments in San Mateo have a six-month waiting list. Bakar's comment, which drew appreciative chuckles last week at a Las Vegas convention of the National Apartment Association, reflects his industrys' ebullient mood...
...maids, for example, spend half their time every day cleaning the large, multi-unit bathrooms. If normal size bathrooms were shared by two or three girls, the users could care for it, just like in the real world. This arrangement would actually involve less work, since girls would naturally tend to be tidier if they had to clean up after themselves. In any case, it's not going to ruin anyone's academic standing to clean up a bathroom occasionally...
While the impasse over the release of Beggars' Banquet drags on, the Stones are already conjuring more headaches for Decca. They hint that the cover of their next album may make the bathroom wall of Beggars' Banquet look cute by comparison. Its subject: the Pope...