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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Ruggers Return From British Isles Tour | 4/8/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Bugs, Bees and Balky Radios | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Welcome Home, Soldier | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Truth and Consequences | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secret Santas | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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