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...dimensions. Though parties and interhouse sporting events are still popular, there is a growing interest in community projects. Last fall Miami's Alpha Epsilon Phi and its sister sorority, Delta Zeta, held a "showerthon"-during which students took showers for 360 straight hours in an especially rigged bathtub on the street-and raised more than $1,500 for the American Cancer Society. At the University of Kansas, the Interfraternity Council has assumed sponsorship of the semiannual campus blood drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fraternity Redux | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...contemporary English-speaking cinema (Petulia, The Bed Sitting Room and the recent Three Musketeers). Lester is also a superb stylist, and he has made Juggernaut into a cunningly engineered entertainment, full of suspense. The Poseidon Adventure, by inevitable comparison, looks like something staged by a kid in his bathtub just before bedtime. Lester has done the calamity number about as well as it can be done. Why it has to be done at all is another matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All at Sea | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...means best of all. She is completely left out ... You become part of your husband's audience. Although the ego of people in public life doesn't quite equal that of Orson Welles, who is supposed to have wanted applause when he climbed out of the bathtub, it is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Relentless Ordeal of Political Wives | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

...looks like a cross between a golf cart and a moon buggy. It is popularly known as "the flying bathtub" and "the top hat on wheels." Its real name is Witkar-Dutch for white car-and it may just prove to be the biggest advance in inner-city transportation since trolleys took over from velocipedes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Witkars of Amsterdam | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Interstate Epidemic. CDC investigators are able to close the books on some cases with little trouble. They had few problems, for example, figuring out why a batch of plum wine that had fermented in an old bathtub caused lead poisoning in only one of several people who helped concoct the stuff. Under questioning, the man sheepishly revealed that he had consumed 50 gallons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Disease Detectives | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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