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Like many another building in Rio, the apartment house has running water only every other day, so the President of Brazil has to keep his bathtub filled as a reservoir for the dry days. Says Café Filho: "It was a tremendous disappointment for my neighbors when they realized that living under the same roof as the President did not mean they were going to get water every...
...before the University even had a swimming pool, it imported a small, red-headed, round shouldered men to build a swimming team. He started in the "Big Tree bathtub," and by the time the I.A.B. pool opened the next year, he had done what he had proved he would do at Syracuse. Harold S. Ulen produced a winning swimming team, the kind the University has had ever since. And Ulen has been here now for a quarter of a century...
Like a rhinoceros backing out of a bathtub, ROTC headquarters is defeating itself with its own ponderosity. Despite its predicament, it could pull out of the situation if it would turn around and work forwards. Yet with all college Army and Air Force units subject to governmental cutback drives between sophomore and junior years, the military insists on teaching last things first and dropping students without giving them any benefits from the abbreviated two-year program...
...Motors' Buick, for years a notable success as the safe, sound and respectable "doctor's car," was in dire trouble. It had gone up in price, fallen behind in styling, grown fat and heavy (one model was inelegantly nicknamed the "pregnant Buick," the "bedpan Buick" and the "bathtub Buick"). When Depression struck, it hit Buick square in its middle-age spread, and Buick's share of the auto market dropped from more than 8% to 2.9%, a mere 43,809 cars. G.M. directors talked darkly of dropping Buick from the company, but Executive Vice President William Knudsen...
...holes for hardware in ten seconds; machines automatically sprayed a first coat of paint onto small pieces of wood, then other machines sanded them down for a second coat. In exactly one hour, House No. 66,657 was ready to be loaded aboard a waiting trailer, along with bathtub, water heater, cabinets, sinks, etc. By next evening it was erected at an Ohio site 325 miles away. This week it will be ready for occupancy, with landscaping completed...