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...shower-taking, lawn-dousing, pool-splashing nation that casually consumes about 300 billion gallons of water a day, it seems curious that water should be a national defense problem...
...both campaign parties, the correspondents encountered similar (and classic) occupational hazards-scrambling for planes, trains and buses, filing stories from odd places at odder hours, seeking out the nearest shower and jiffy laundry. Both men move fast, Sidey and Meyers agree. "When the candidate stops speaking," says Meyers, "it's time to grab your typewriter and start fighting your way to the bus." Neither reporter had any complaint about the manner in which the press is treated: in each camp, speeches are mimeographed, planes chartered, reservations confirmed and wires dispatched with cool efficiency...
...outsiders, but known all too well to his coaches, is his knack for getting injured (ever so slightly but enough to be worrisome) in antics around the pool. He broke his toe on a trampoline before the 1959 Yale meet; he tore a toenail walking up steps to shower after winning his Olympic team berth...
With every rival conquered, Rafer John son later reaffirmed his decision to retire from the decathlon. "Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for abou four hours and look at the moon," said Olympic Champion Johnson, "I don' know where-just walk, walk, walk. I've got to unwind. I'm through, man, I'n through...
Guns Galore. A shower of new products and processes is augmenting man's age-old efforts to get in out of the rain. Minnesota's Schjeldahl Co.'s polyester plastic balloon structures can be built in half a day, need only an ordinary building fan to keep them inflated, will last five to ten years. Quonset-shaped, the Schjel-dome will work in the arctic or the tropics, can be used for garages and greenhouses, swimming pool covers and grain warehouses, is repaired with a hot iron...