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...study just completed by Cornell University. And the worst offender of all is that old unmentionable, the toilet. Not only has it not changed basically since plumbing began to move indoors, but it remains "the most ill-suited fixture ever designed." The most natural position, Architecture Professor Alexander Kira and his four assistants discovered after exhaustive research, is squatting. "We may think it is outrageous to squat," says Kira, "but most of the world squats. It is more natural and easier on the body...
...Kira's radical proposal is more down to earth: the seat should be just 9 inches high v. about 16 inches for the conventional toilet. For better hygiene, he advocates washing jets fore and aft. The seat itself would be wider, padded, and come with built-in push-up bars, paper holder and electric flush controls. And while on the subject, Kira thinks that the urinal could stand more study. Working with everything from splash diagrams to trajectory charts, the study group proposes a cavern-shaped urinal, suggests that it might pull down from the wall above...
...with Faucets. The Cornell project got underway when Kira discovered that "kitchens have been researched to death; someone does a study every year. But the bathroom has been left alone." Starting from scratch, the Cornell researchers conducted a questionnaire survey of 1,000 Los Angeles families, found that "once people got talking about bathrooms, they couldn't stop...
Marriage Revealed. Prince Andrew of Yugoslavia, 34, brother of former King Peter II, now a London insurance broker; and German-born Princess Kira of Leiningen, 33; he for the second time; at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, "some time last year," in a ceremony that the publicityshy prince refrained from announcing until eight days after Kira bore him a son March...
Among other forebears of the Queen, not all recognized by Burke's, are Shakespeare, three clergymen, an innkeeper, Frederick the Great of Prussia, a plumber, and Spain's11th century hero, Rodrigo (El Cid) Diaz de Bivar. Elizabeth's surviving kinsfolk include eight-year-old Kira Alexandrine Harris of Amarillo, Texas...