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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sseldorf doctors are confident that infectious diseases can be reduced by getting rid of the common towel. But the hot-air dryer, they say, is far from an effective replacement; it spreads germs faster by blowing them into the air. The Dusseldorf doctors prefer either the long roll, in which each part of the towel is used only once, or individual paper towels. Either way, they urge: "One person, one towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: One Person, One Towel | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...Bonnie can hardly wait to get an electric iron, an electric water pump, a new washing machine and a dryer. A television set, she says, is at the bottom of the shopping list. She would much rather have her three children explore the Yaak than vegetate before the magic eye. "Later," she says, "we'll buy a freezer, and after that a waffle iron. It's been a long time since this family sat down to waffles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: The Lights Go On In the Yaak River Valley | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...Sert is not the only architect who mutiliates Harvard property. Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott's Leverett Towers have occupied University land for a long while; Yamasaki's Engineering Sciences Building, a gleaming white, washer-dryer-like edifice, will soon open on Oxford Street; and an almost windowless, brick Medieval turret, the work of a firm from Houston, Texas, will eventually stand on Appian...

Author: By Russell B. Roberts, | Title: Incinerator Gothic | 5/20/1963 | See Source »

Patent protection often means little; copycat firms know that a copied product may have spent its life cycle by the time lengthy litigation is finished. Westinghouse recently found a company copying its new hair dryer so exactly that even the instruction book was the same. In desperation, many inventive companies now license their competitors before they can copy, hoping at least to collect some royalties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Research: The Short Happy Life | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...machinery and rolling stock, including a $9,000 combine, two pickup trucks, a 2½-ton truck and three tractors. Helen England raises German shepherd dogs, earned $2,300 last year, and used part of the money to buy new bedroom furniture. They have an automatic washer and dryer, wall-to-wall carpeting in the living room, vinyl tile in the dining room-kitchen, and a TV set. In the busy spring planting time, Frank often rises at 2 a.m. to get a head start in the fields. A hired hand helps out in the spring, and in summer they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Look of the Land | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

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