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...chat, share shampoos and in almost continuous motion, gather up their bottles and towels and now-limp suits. Under the hair dryer the conversation stops as the canned wind throws their hair to their eyes and roars past their ears. They grin at each other and at the matron, who is sweeping puddles of water at the drain...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: IAB, 12:30 p.m. | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

...girl with the long red hair pulls it high on her head, bends and lets it fall, brushing it into the dryer. The two do a little jogstep to save their toes as the matron moves more puddles out from under them...

Author: By Amanda Bennett, | Title: IAB, 12:30 p.m. | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

WASHERS AND HEATERS: An automatic clothes washer uses only 103 kwh. of energy a year, but a dryer needs almost ten times as much. A standard hot water heater burns 4,219 kwh. annually, v. 4,811 kw-h., or $110.17 worth for a deluxe, quick-recovery model. Opening the tap at the base of most water heaters at least monthly drains out heat-robbing sediment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSERVATION: A Kilowatt Counter's Guide to Saving | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

...inflated, worn or comfortably toted. "Body extensions"-notions to be worn by people on the move-include the "Toot-a-Loop" radio, which twists around the arm like a snake. The sauna bodysuit promises to create a hotbox effect merely by being hooked up to a portable hair dryer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Portable World | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

...traditionally a golf weakling, did some heavy recruiting, and the four freshman on this year's team have responded by beating Yale and performing well on their Southern trip. "They are the two toughest Ivy teams, but we will be playing on our home course, and it should be dryer than Amherst's," added Kistner...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Golfers Top Amherst, Tufts For Fourth Victory of Year | 4/18/1972 | See Source »

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