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...useless underground). Chemical toilets are available at reasonable prices; the minimum provision for disposing of human waste is a stock of plastic bags. Among other useful items: sanitary napkins (which can double as bandages), toothache pills, tranquilizers. deodorants and air purifiers, tight-lidded garbage cans, matches, a can opener, bunk beds with paper sheets, books and games for children...
...bowling, whose adherents require standing symbols of victory over one another; Manhattan's Tiffany & Co., for example, sells a sterling-silver-headed putter ($140) as a "presentation piece." But a sizable chunk of new orders for cups, plaques and statuettes is pure whim-and sometimes pure, if harmless, bunk. One man ordered a dog-show trophy, which he donated as an award for a rare breed; his dog won it only because the dog was the only rare breed in the show. In San Diego, a girl bought a beauty contest trophy at a Robbins branch store and awarded...
...They say that people like me-people with drive and ambition -that we'll never quit. Bunk. I'm getting out. I'm tired of supporting lawyers and tax collectors." With that, Charles Rolley, 58, stepped down last week as president of Reno's Rolley Co., the nation's biggest maker of suntan lotion (its dollar-green Sea and Ski grosses some $12 million a year). A kinetic promoter, Rolley moved into lotions in 1947 on borrowed money, sold out to Botany Industries, Inc., for $2,000,000 in 1955, stayed on as boss...
...carrying a small house slung beneath it and capable of carrying 180 infantrymen (biggest U.S. model, due next year, will lift only 100). Though some of the planes on display were already known to Western aviation experts, and others were simply old models with new touches, the flypast made bunk out of Nikita's boast that Russia had consigned its warplanes to junk. Judging by what they saw, Western observers concluded that the Russians are roughly on a par with the U.S. in the quality of their fighters, clearly ahead in variety, if not quantity, of supersonic bombers...
...best living quarters for a bunch of young women in search of a Harvard education. In recent years, College officials talked eloquently about the obligation to expand. Stopping their ears to anguished complaints from the undergraduates, they converted singles into doubles with the purchase of several double-decker "bunk beds." Overcrowding reached its peak a year ago, with one dorm housing more than double the number of students it had been designed...