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...heavy industry and no effort to attract any. There are 22 banks, nine hotels, the cleanest jail in the county, and a chamber of commerce that couldn't care less. There are 65 acres of parks and playgrounds but no pool hall; a fencing academy but no laundromat or bowling alley...
Unlike cramming bodies into telephone booths or rotating in Laundromat dryers, piano reduction is supposed to be scientific team tomfoolery with a high purpose. Explained Caltech Piano Reducer Robert W. Diller, head of the team: "Piano reduction has psychological implications which are pretty dear to us. It's a satire on the obsolescence of today's society. We're sending out a brochure to see if we can get competition started all over the world. We'll start with the Paris Conservatoire and the Juilliard School of Music...
Among the U.S. products still standing watch over their good names, still demanding Upper-Case billing in news stories, novels and shopping columns: Erector Set, Band-Aid, Dixie cup, JellO, Jeep, Laundromat, Kleenex. Deepfreeze, Levi's (blue jeans). Dry Ice, Simoniz, Spray Net and Zipper...
Apartheid will soon prevent the clothes of a black or Colored man from being washed in the laundromat machine as a White's. Black Beauty was banned until it was established that Black Beauty was a horse. Physical contact between Whites and Blacks is outlawed; couples who have been living together as man and wife or as long as 30 years have been separated and charged with "immorality...
...Motels & Laundromats. For the most part, the modern pros are a congenial lot. They share in their trade secrets, e.g., heating golf balls with pocket handwarmers fired by lighter fluid, because a warm ball has more bounce than a cold one. They share in the physical ailments of their profession: back trouble from the constant twisting of the spine (Finsterwald, Marty Furgol); a torn tendon along the third finger of the left hand that exposes a nerve, keeps a player from gripping his club firmly (Rosburg, Snead, Jack Burke Jr.). They share in their social life. Driving some...