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Show Self-Service Laundromat: Big Step: Doityourselfski For Rusky Women The Russians, as we all know, invented the phonograph, the electric light, the automobile, auto-mobile, and the college student. There are very few accomplishments the United States gets credit for in the Soviet Union, we hear, and it was quite refreshing the other day to learn that right in the heart of Moscow lies a truly American Ameri-can thing: a dry cleaning center. According to the Daily Telegraph of London, it is perhaps "the most modern self-service dry cleaning plant, outside of Southern California." In fact, that Moscow plant is so American that special attendants are necessary to interpret directions, written writ-ten on the machine in English: 'Insert 'In-sert quarters only . . . Spin Dry . . . Clothes Fluff . . ." The plant was built by Romain Fielding Field-ing and Associates, Inc., Los Angeles, and plans are underway for six more plants in other large Russian cities. The Chronicle is sure that Birchers will somehow condemn it as being "un-American," "un-American," but we feel it is a significant step toward what appears to us to be basic to world peace: mutual understanding understand-ing of cultures and the destruction of the myth that the devil immutably resides in either Washington or Moscow. |