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With the Q4, Cunard hopes to dump its old-tub, cold-mutton reputation and start filling as many cabins as the Italian and French lines fill on their slick new vessels. The Q4 will be commissioned in 1968, but, says Sir Basil, "Cunard line's passenger service must be paying its own way by that time...
...Tubs are now fit for no one. They should be longer and contoured to the bather's body. More hand holds and a nonslip surface are needed to reduce accidents. Since washing in dirty water is a poor way to get clean, hand sprays are proposed to allow bathers to step out of the tub completely cleansed...
...alert researchers, the ordinary bathroom has long been a fount of fascinating scientific knowledge. Archimedes divined the principle of buoyancy while dunking in his tub. Modern researchers have written learned treatises on the vortex formed by water draining from a sink. Now two physicists have found that a bathroom is the perfect place to study another phenomenon: how splashing water generates atmospheric electricity...
Cool Reception. According to Pierce and Whitson, the atmosphere of a bathroom is electrified whenever water is running. The charge varies from a high negative field during a shower to a barely noticeable charge when a toilet is flushed. Water that falls into an empty tub produces a higher charge than when it bubbles into a filled one. Splashing water was not the only electrical-field generator noted by the scientists. The highest charge, measured by a field mill installed in a bathroom being used by guests at a cocktail party, occurred when a cocktail waitress combed...
...poppies from the poppycock. Side by side, split-nailed suburban housewives and well-manicured Manhattan matrons, as well as a surprising number of camera-toting men, strolled through the better commercial displays, ooohing, aaahing, envying and inquiring. "They must have a secret!" exclaimed one housewife in front of a tub of Golden Wine roses. "Ah, geraniums! I love them because they are so hardy!" said another...