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...airport bar. The plane left at 9 30. "Hackett said that the plane "almost crashed," but, luckily, most of the passengers on the plane had been convinced by team members to wear lucky Hashumakes--headbands which were worn by Japanese kamikaze pilots--made, in the case, out of toilet paper...
...severe case of motion sickness. The ship itself also suffered a recurrence of an old ailment: during lift-off it lost several dozen heat-shielding tiles. As Columbia whirled 150 miles above the earth, still other things began to go wrong-two television cameras failed, the $1.2 million toilet clogged, a latch on the cargo-bay doors temporarily jammed, mysterious static rang in the astronauts' ears, and a teleprinter spilled paper wildly. The most serious failure came when gremlins knocked out some of the shuttle's radio links, briefly raising fears that there might be a premature halt...
...right wrist to a raised wooden platform covered by a small camping tent. He was never allowed to get up or move around the apartment outside the tent. He washed himself with a pail of water brought to him once a week, and was supplied with a chemical toilet. His captors hung a white 40-watt light bulb in the tent during what Dozier took to be daytime, and replaced it with a blue 40-watt bulb, presumably at night. His daily regimen included exercising as best he could inside the tent, occasionally reading (George Orwell's 1984, clippings...
...size; his wife's childhood home, once a center of culture and comfort, is only a notch above a slum tenement: "Radiators turned cold after breakfast. The faucets went dry at 8 a.m. and did not run again until evening. The bathtub had no stopper. You flushed the toilet with buckets of water...
Secret Santa surprises are not limited to dining halls, as Tim Chang '85 found out last Sunday morning. Chang discovered a trail of paper footsteps leading to his bathroom, where he found a Christmas-wrapped toilet stall containing a copy of Playboy magazine...