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...regulation tall "tarbucket" hat). Hair must be cut short. Makeup? Yes, but in "good taste." Jewelry? A wristwatch and one ring. No earrings, no bobby pins, no hair ribbons. The women will room together in pairs-but in barracks alongside the men. Doors will be put on toilet cubicles, and curtains on the showers. Like other plebes, the women will have no radio, TV or stereo in their rooms. A doctor specializing in gynecology will be on duty to deal with medical problems...
...attacks there, but "the verbal assaults are frightening enough to cause many children to avoid the bathrooms for the entire school year." Several whites admitted they went home for lunch solely to avoid using the school lavatory; one fifth-grade child wet his pants rather than venture into the toilet...
...everyday life in 1975. Says Connie Birmingham, an aide to U.S. Senator Richard Clark of Iowa: "Ten years ago, the thing to do at a party was for the women and the men to break up into groups. Well, they still do that, but instead of talking about toilet training and where they get their hair done, women are talking about feminism. They discuss what they are doing, and it is definitely more interesting, even more interesting than the men." Her view of women ten years ago may be partly caricature, but the sense of change is real...
...services seem to be accepting the women easily enough. For a time, there was a preoccupation with shower and toilet arrangements, but the construction of a few doors, partitions and separate shower rooms has relaxed the apprehensions. The services do their best to assign married women to the same posts as their uniformed husbands. When that is impossible, the couple must make a choice. For one woman Navy ensign married to an Army captain, the choice is clear. If he is transferred to a landlocked base, she will stay with the Navy in Washington. Says she: "I joined the Navy...
...pushes a button and is then soaked, washed with suds produced by ultrasonic waves, rinsed, massaged with rubber balls and finally dried with heat lamps. A big step toward civilized johnmanship is the "AD 2000 Comfort Control Center," a prototype built by Olsonite of Detroit. Mounted on a conventional toilet, it provides a tilting, vibrating back, reading light, ashtray, radio, TV, tuner and bidet attachment. To bring the bathroom back into the family-and vice versa-a West German firm has designed a Wohnbad, or living bath, to be shared by all. It boasts chairs, rugs, paintings, sun lamps...