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...careful," warned our redcap, Chester, as he carried our suitcases to our second-story sleeper on the silver superliner. "Your bathroom has two buttons--one to flush, one to turn on the shower." Sure enough, our deluxe bedroom had a private "bathroom" with a shower right over the toilet and a drain on the floor! Hmmm. Our compartment also included a long sofa-like seat (which converted to a double bed) with a view out the window and a chair across the way. There was also a berth near the ceiling, accessible by ladder, to be pulled down later. However...
...been slipped under our door, we were nearly into the station at Greenwood, Miss., where a few local passengers boarded. Our breakfast companions were Claudia Ogle and Alma Holloway, a retired secretary and a bank administrator from Toledo, Ohio. When I mentioned that I had showered in the toilet-shower combo, they looked as scandalized as if I had announced that I had sunbathed topless on the engine roof at full speed...
...that she is about to make history. "You don't get to this position by saying, 'I'm different and I'm special, so therefore I deserve to be the C.O.,'" she says. In fact, the only change her presence required was to remove the spring-loaded, always-up toilet seat in her cabin's head. The Navy insists that McGrath is under no special scrutiny because of her gender. In fact, she will relinquish her command of the ship a month before the mission ends, simply because the Navy's unrelenting personnel cycle demands...
...bureau's guarantee of total confidentiality. Like draft-card burners from the 1960s, some privacy-loving Americans have even vowed to pay the government's $100 penalty for nonfiling rather than satisfy Uncle Sam's Big Brotherish curiosity about such matters as whether their home has a working flush toilet...
...sense this with his translucent Brancusi-esque dollop of a toothbrush for Fluocaril in 1989. Now pharmaceutical companies have released a plethora of toothbrushes--ridged, twisted, tapered, with bands, dots and swirls. The same philosophy applies to dozens of products we used to regard as banal--garbage cans, toilet brushes and cheese graters. They're cute, they're cheap and they're disposable...