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...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 »

...murder, cutting off a hand for thievery-though they are far less frequently applied than they were years ago. As in many other Arab countries, drinking and smoking are nominally forbidden, but police today arrest only the public drinkers. Many resident foreigners and some Saudis concoct their own bathtub liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Life and Times of the Cautious King of Araby | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

...woman who killed French Revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in his bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Objective: De Gaulle | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

THREE PEOPLE in the top bed of a bunk bed? Sound impossible? If the current housing situation continues, students may find themselves living in the bathtub. With the cat. Charlie Shepard tries to make sense out of the mess on page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In This Issue | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...advertisement in Boston After Dark and a nice lady with a cat of her own came and took him away and renamed him Benjamin, just like the lady in The Sound and the Fury. The cat was so affected that he never molested the lady's bathtub, but on his first day in his new home, he began to claw the furniture. Thereafter he was well-behaved. Even though he had almost certainly never read any Ezra Pound, apparently, he had become so imbued with the Harvard atmosphere that he didn't want to be taken in on false pretenses...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: What Did the Cat Do to the Bathtub Down the Hall? | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

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