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...Retreat. On Duck Island, his sanctuary out of reach of Washington on Lake Ontario, Foster Dulles moved with Janet into a different kind of glory, as a sort of woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known...
...first effects of the technologicial age became apparent when scholars learned the machine best wringed out prose composed in the United Kingdom, composed preferably, before the start of the 19th century. Sadly, America was a land of haste and the automatic washer-dryer, and the work of American prosewriters proved too crude, too harsh, for the Eliot machine's sensitivities. No fools, the scholars did not be-tray their beloved machine, and respected its sensitivities; they didn't bother much with trying to process American literature, particularly modern American literature...
...Washer & Maxwell. Revell got into models in 1947, when President Glaser, who had tried his hand at radio repair work and plastics fabrication, decided to make a "detailed and authentic" plastic toy washing machine. It sold well, but his first big hit did not come until 1950, when Glaser put out a copy of the old Maxwell auto, made famous by Comedian Jack Benny, sold 800,000. Glaser added the battleship Missouri (still the most successful, with 2,040,000 kits sold), launched his own 89? version of the atomic submarine Nautilus in 1953 six months before General Dynamics Corp...
Though the one who stands to gain most by the jungle of models and gimmicks is the service man, few service men can actually carry all the parts needed to make repairs. Said a Pittsburgh service man called to replace the timer on a 1955 washer: "I've got a whole truckload of timers outside, but not one for your washer...
...reduced the number of basic body shells this year from three to two. General Electric's Hotpoint Co. Division is cutting its TV models by 50% for 1959, and Motorola is offering 15% fewer 1959 TV models. Norge, which got an early start this year by cutting its washer and dryer models in half, found that its sales climbed...