Word: sanyo
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...climbing into the Ningen Sentakuki will emerge moments later -scrubbed clean by hot water, massaged by small rubber spheres that are churned by high-frequency sound, and dried by the heat of an infra-red lamp. But at $6,600, the "human washing machine" developed by Osaka's Sanyo Electric Co. is out of reach of all but the filthy rich...
...Clues. "They came by bus, by put-putting Rototillers, aboard army trucks borrowed for an afternoon from ARVN," wrote TIME's Rauch. "Those who had time to pack chose peculiar things to salvage: one family had a refrigerator in a wheelbarrow, nothing else. A lieutenant carried an enormous Sanyo sound system, still in its carton and minus the speakers, strapped to the back of his motorbike. Nearly everyone seems to have a pig. Pigs are strapped onto Honda seats, pigs are tied onto front bumpers, pigs hang in wire cages from tail gates and are slung from poles that...