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...electric footwarmer. So well paid are their jobs at the nearby Matsushita Electric Co. radio plant-as a foreman, Seiji makes $61.12 a month, plus a bonus of 6½ months' pay last year-that they also own a refrigerator, transistor radio, vacuum cleaner, electric iron and washer. If the expectant Kumiko presents him with a son next month, Seiji even talks confidently of sending the boy to a university. "What more could I want?" Seiji ruminates contentedly-and answers himself: "I can't think of anything." The contentment of Seiji Hayakawa is a consequence of the biggest...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is as enjoyable as its title is long. Rising from window washer to chairman of the board, Robert Morse is a comic marvel of apple-cheeked guile and flaming self-adoration...
...housewife who feels like the Sorcerer's Apprentice every time she mops the floor, there is SiphO Products' Aqua-Vac-an automatic, nonelectric floor washer and dryer. Hook one end of Aqua-Vac's 20-ft. vinyl tube to a special adapter on the faucet in the kitchen sink, turn on the water, and the cellulose sponge at the business end spreads water over the floor to make a lather with previously sprinkled scouring powder. When the swabbing is done, a twist of the faucet adapter turns Aqua-Vac into a siphon that slurps up the dirty...
...With an eye on the success of the automatic laundry, appliance makers have produced a dry-cleaning machine that operates on the same coin-in-the-slot, done-while-you-wait system as the automatic washer. The new machines can take an 8-lb. to 10-lb. load (for example: two skirts, three sweaters, a wool dress, a child's snowsuit, a woman's jacket and a man's jacket), dry-clean the works for $1.50 to $2. Average price for the same job at a standard dry cleaner's: $8.35. Twenty-three U.S. appliance makers...
...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is put together as precisely as a fine watch by the jeweler of U.S. musicomedy jokesmiths, Abe Burrows. As the up-from-window-washer hero, Robert Morse is the funniest ployboy in the history of officemanship...