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...totally dedicated to the self-help theory. In 16 months, its eight-man faculty has not had a payday ("The faculty supports the college"). When one highly qualified French teacher complained about dirty classroom windows, she was told: "You know we don't have a window washer here, baby. Wash them yourself." She quit on the spot. Nor does Duskin worry about policing students. Eight of them have set up their pads in a cabin outside town-in what combination he cares not. Says Duskin: "You can't lock girls up at 10:30 p.m. and expect them...
Looking slightly prehistoric with its long, grasping, enameled neck, the gadget ($29.95) allows the housewife to follow an easy double routine: she pops her dirty clothes into the washer, then washes her hair, sets it while the wet clothes are drying, then attaches the gadget to the emptied dryer and puts her head under it. She emerges dripped and dried, but possibly wondering about the day when she herself might be folded neatly by her husband, and placed with great care in the linen closet...
...always remember to keep our vowels open!"), gets stuck astraddle a spiked, swinging gate. When that gets rusty, he drops ice cubes down m'lady's bosom, pulls the rug out from under a gaggle of dancers, crunches up the boss's dishes in the clothes washer...
Logically enough, considering the environment, the phobias most often found in U.S. metropolitan areas have to do with high places, airplanes and dirt. Fear of heights is not a serious matter if it involves only skyscrapers: an occasional high-steel worker or window-washer has to change his job because of this. But many people, as they grow older, become neurotically cautious, get to the stage where they cannot even go near a window above the ground floor. In such severe cases, the anxiety usually extends far beyond this symptom and pervades the whole personality. Airplanes evoke a comparable phobia...
With sales dwindling, the entire appliance industry is in the midst of an ambitious program to improve quality. "I'm not saying the whole thing is lousy," explains one Norge executive, "but the automatic washer is probably more susceptible to service than any other appliance in the home." He speaks from rueful personal experience. For years there was no formal exchange between Norge's service department and its engineers, and chronic complaints never filtered back to the machine designers-a gap since remedied. Maytag decided to drop annual model changes, use the savings for better quality control...