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More than just a gleam in an advertising man's eye, hot tubs actually exist and are widely used in such areas as Santa Barbara, California. The tub itself is basically a California wine vat adapted for bathing purposes by the addition of pump, filter, heater, water-jets, and lots of water. While some claim that the modern hot tub originated in the '50s among rural dropouts in the Santa Barbara Hills, tubs did not attract much notice in California until four or five years...
Exhibits-section employees painted the house annually. They also built a front portico, dug a fish pond and equipped it with a pump and lights, and made shelves, telephone stands and an Oriental fruit bowl for Hoover. They repaired his air conditioners, stereo equipment, tape recorders, television sets, electric wiring, lawn mowers and a snow blower. They sodded portions of his yard, installed artificial turf, planted shrubbery, built a deck in the rear of the house, a redwood fence, a flagstone court and sidewalks. They designed and constructed a power-operated window, reset clocks, polished metal, retouched wallpaper, provided firewood...
...currency markets to keep the dollar from plunging too much lower. In that field, at least, the basic policy of intervening to stabilize the falling dollar has been set: but on domestic issues, the incoming chairman has no such clear guidelines. He will be under heavy pressure to pump out enough money to speed up the growth of the economy, yet somehow keep the money supply from growing so rapidly as to accelerate inflation, and to hold down interest rates besides. How can a Fed chairman perform such an exquisitely difficult balancing act? Says one staff member of the Senate...
...Doolittle of do-it-yourself is a 35-year-old New Yorker named Spiros Zakas. A highly successful commercial designer and author who recently revamped Chicago's venerable Pump Room, Zakas also teaches at Manhattan's famed Parsons School of Design (wherefrom, nearly 50 years ago, issued the Parsons table). Zakas' book, Furniture in 24 Hours (Macmillan; $10.95), a collection of his own designs and those of his most inventive pupils, has gone through six printings in little over a year. Its 128 pages are a potpourri of practical pieces that range from ad hoc aphrodisiac...
...imported $3.6 billion more from the U.S. than they exported to it in the first nine months of this year. As a result, Europeans are understandably resentful of Washington's feeling that they are somehow or other sponging off U.S. expansion and are particularly wary of calls to pump up their own economies. One consequence of doing so would be not only to deepen their trading deficit with the U.S. but to erode their competitive edge in important "third" markets such as the Middle East...