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...kitchen sink broke down and stayed that way for a week...
...dissolve the greasiest grease and dirtiest dirt, leave no scum behind, make clothes cleaner and cutlery more coruscating. But the result of all this cleanliness is a mountain of foam. Most of it is created by the high-sudsing detergents used for household work or washing dishes in the sink. Such detergents sometimes cause foam to back up stories high in the pipes of tall apartment buildings. A high-sudsing syndet falling through a pipe from the 15th floor may enlarge itself 17,000 times by the time it hits the basement. The widespread use of low-sudsing detergents (among...
...pocket, and I'm having a ball!" He chugalugged his beer and roared: "When in doubt, drink and shout!" That night, in a motel room. 24 boys and girls twisted to the music of a four-piece combo, adroitly avoiding two double beds, a table, a sink, a stove and a refrigerator. Cried a University of Miami coed: "Daytona Beach is the best place in the whole world!" That was precisely the reaction that Daytona Beach had hoped-and spent money-to evoke. In recent springs, U.S. college kids had been heading like lemmings to Fort Lauderdale, about...
...almost two weeks, Sullivan had his barge, the largest boat ever taken through the Boston locks, tied up at the riverwall next to M.I.T. He first threatened to sink the boat in the river, directly in front of the Charles River Yacht Club, then decided to convert it into a home for himself...
Sullivan owns the land under the Cambridge side of the Charles in front of the Yacht Club. He could easily sink the barge in about six feet of water on the area laid out in his foundation permit, thus obstructing motorboating throughout the Charles and severely hemming in crafts docked at the Yacht Club...