Word: lockers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With its top and sides closed, the walnut-grain cabinet looks like an executive's liquor locker. In fact, it is technology's latest answer to one of the oldest but least discussed of all the problems of hospital care: how to let patients perform natural functions in relaxed privacy, without waiting for an assisted trip to the bathroom, or the discomfort of the bedpan. For when they are faced with so inhibiting a situation, many embarrassed patients develop elimination difficulties severe enough to require extra medical and nursing care...
...eavesdrop on others. The civil service abolished personality tests. The Internal Revenue Service, which had been caught bugging rooms where taxpayers conferred with lawyers, promised never to do it again. The Post Office walled up the peepholes through which its agents had been spying on postal employees in their locker rooms and toilets...
...starting from scratch. Scratch was his first junior varsity football game. He managed to center the ball back 39 feet and in the process, hit the fullback, Lothrop Withington Jr. '40, in the head. "Dietz has a great memory of his captain coming up to his locker," Dietz says (he often affects the third person), "and telling him he would be one of the six men who would not make the junior varsity trip to Yale...
...provided a musically competent, visually disastrous production unhappily married. The suburban couple (Richard Lee and Miriam Boyer) have adequate voices, but are sorely tried by Bernstein's libretto. Only Danny Kaye could enunciate some of the convoluted lines without dragging the tempos. Those scenes, which like Leete's locker-room soliloquy were more musical comedy than opera, were the most successful...
Offensive guard Evans, who kept the locker room lively according to his teammates, battled his way into the Crimsons' starting lineup after spending two years in Varsity B ranks. At 6-0 and 192 pounds. Evans lacked the size usually necessary for interior linemen...