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...like device. In it, a secretary can sit upright, slump or practically recline while typing, without missing a key. "Every part of a typist, with the exception of her eyeballs and fingers, is supported," says Colani. Installed in the contraption, a typist can lean against a contoured back and headrest, with elbows planted on concave platforms and wrists braced on two flexible supports just below the keyboard. Earphones provide music or can be connected to a dictating machine. Colani, who calls his device an "integrated mobile module," spent three months and $20,000 developing it. But he is somewhat pessimistic...
...limited to overnight trips. Passengers' skis are stored in polyethylene bags instead of bulkier and costlier corrugated cardboard boxes. Napkins are no longer rolled inside a ring but, to save labor costs, are packed together with silverware in sealed plastic bags. Disposable paper has replaced linen for the headrest covers...
...together?" Yes, indeed, agreed the several hundred customers who have already taken the Sagittarius home. They had no difficulty matching the decor of their bathrooms; the tubs come in a choice of 2,000 different colors or laminated fabrics. One popular version has leather panels and a double headrest-always "good for reading," Bonsack says, "on the off-chance that you are alone...
...styles were recognizable, they were of mixed ancestry. The sinuous curves of George Mulhauser's molded plywood chair and matching otto man (Directional Industries, $280) instantly recall Aalto, for example, but the sausage-shaped arms and headrest owe more to Le Corbusier. Hans Eichenberger's tubular framed sofa (Sten-dig, $1,000) is a relatively straightforward, clean-lined exercise in the Miesian idiom. Blond wood was back in Edward Wormley's new line for Dunbar, which features ash in everything from storage carts that open up for dining ($560) to toadstool-shaped tables ($248) and benches...
...passengers to seat the blacks next to them; if permission is not granted, the blacks are usually shifted to other planes. They are served on plates and cups of a different color from white passengers', and their dishes are washed separately. When the nonwhite leaves the aircraft, his headrest is immediately tagged and its cover laundered separately from others on the plane...