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...Washington Irving elementary school in Waverly, Iowa, Architects Lawrence Perkins and Philip Will went on the theory that children are happiest in their own little community. They equipped each classroom with its own washroom, scaled its windows and ceilings to child-size. Other kinds of rooms, however, are of different heights, and each height has its reasons. The low-ceiling corridors leave room for extra clerestory windows in the classrooms, but the high-peaked playroom is designed in part for adults who want to hold dances or meetings at night...
...pact. The Municipal Civil Service Commission fired him. Last week New York State Supreme Court Justice Aron Steuer concluded that "it is a bit difficult to visualize how [Pinggera] in his official capacity can give aid to his country's enemies," ordered him reinstated in his old job: washroom attendant in a public comfort station...
Depression followed, and an ambitious male secretary at a major studio who asked for a raise was awarded a key to the executive washroom instead. The day was saved again by Technicolor, and in the sunlight of wartime prosperity, Hollywood made hay. But after the war the foreign market collapsed, and the domestic box office took a dive. The U.S. Supreme Court divorced the movie producers from their theater chains, and the studios no longer had a guaranteed outlet for their pictures...
Just as the dormitory is a self-contained unit, so is every floor. Each of the four floors of Moors Hall is a going community with a personality all its own. With a smoker, a communal washroom, a kitchen, and ironing boards of its own, every floor fuses its occupants into a unit...
When two company supervisors at Westinghouse's big Lester (Pa.) jet engine Plant walked into the washroom one morning last fortnight they saw what looked like a clear-cut infraction of a long-standing company rule. Nine men were gathered about a crap game. They were immediately fired. But one of the nine, a gear fitter named Edgar Fulmer protested that he had merely dropped by the washroom, and had never touched the bones. Last week, when the plant supervisor refused to reinstate him, almost 7,000 Westinghouse workers waked out and stopped all production. This week the Plant...