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...Buchanan presidential bathtub [Jan.18] is precisely like three zinc tubs in this Radcliffe dormitory that are essential to our ideal of gracious living. To imply that such accouterments are passé, ridiculous, and suitable only for portly six-footers is arbitrary, unjust, and unfair. Such tubs remain entirely serviceable, even for those a scant five feet tall...
...could wish that plumbers would install them nowadays. Zinc tubs are deeper than the conventional porcelain ones, thus being more modest and more efficient. The water level reaches the shoulders rather than just the knees of the seated bather. The metal sides conserve warmth - of great strategic importance in the older houses of Cantabrigia...
...France, the industrial nations of continental Europe have boosted their gross national product 100% (to $212 billion) in ten years, turn out 250 million tons of coal (17% of the world total), some 65 million tons of steel (20% of the total), 1,500,000 tons of copper, zinc and lead (16% of world total). Across the English Channel, Britain's economy this year alone grew some 8% to $68.8 billion...
Kazakhstan (pop. 9,300,000), almost as big as all of Western Europe, is second only to the Ukraine as the breadbasket of the nation. It is Russia's top lead and zinc producer, the second-largest source of copper. Its capital, Alma-Ata (Father of Apples), where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital...
...steel-barred carette, one of the portable, horse-drawn cells used for transporting political prisoners to Siberia. He had been stripped to his drawers and examined by doctors before being locked up. but he produced a small, coiled-spring saw and a can opener to cut through the zinc floor of his cage; they were passed to him, mouth to mouth, when his wife kissed him in tearful "farewell" before the carette was hidden in the corner of the prison yard. Doctors who examined him later did not find the "gaffs." An old carny hand had taught Houdini the trick...