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Upon arriving, the giddy client repairs to (he dressing room, where her street clothes are shorn from her apprehensive body, and is given a pink Balmain-designed gown and gold plastic slippers. Then she can take it all off again for a dip in the sunken Roman bath (bubble, spa or sea water), dry herself on prewarmed towels, and get a massage ($10). Then, any one of the eleven well-coifed hairdressers, costumed in black suits with red linings, will perform a variety of hairdos, right on up to a $35 permanent, after which comes a sprawl in the drying...
...Souls' proudest pursuit is dinner-table conversation; in few other stylized societies, even the cannibalistic, do men so assiduously eat their way to power. On weekends, the talk lures Fellows and former Fellows ("quondams") from all over England for "an intellectual Turkish bath," and sometimes All Souls pays a penalty. In the 1930s, when some of its Fellows were notorious architects of appeasement, "that disastrous dinner table" (as Lord Boothby put it) tarred All Souls with the ignominious brush of Munich. Long since recovered from that cabalistic image. All Souls today is a unique bridge between thought and action...
Such pleasures serve to ease Tahiti's few discomforts. There are only 275 rooms for tourists on the island, though promoters are doing their best to put up 200 more before the big tide washes in this summer. Most popular place is the Hotel Tahiti (18 suites with bath, $20 a day, without meals), and it is plainly not yet the Tahiti Hilton. Most hotels feature an awesome variety of roaches, flies and hairy spiders...
First headquarters for Kenya-and East Africa, for that matter-is Nairobi, (about $1,000, jet economy class from New York). The New Stanley Hotel is in the center of the city, has 200 rooms all with private bath (11 and up for a double, with breakfast); half a mile away is the older, quieter Norfolk, from whose veranda the early settlers used to pot marauding lions ($10 double). Whether at the Norfolk or the New Stanley, in a tented camp or an inn, guests are awakened each morning at 6:30 by the inescapable old British Empire custom...
Provided with the expert advice of the East Africa Tourist Travel Association and the help of a good guide, travelers cannot go far wrong in the region. At the lodge near the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanganyika are rooms ranging from double cabins (sharing outside kitchen and bath) from $8 a night, to a party cabin with four double bedrooms and a single, two private baths, kitchen, sitting room and dining room ($70 a night); food, bought at a local store, comes with the free service of a cook-houseboy. linen, cutlery, crockery. Hunters can also outfit themselves in Tanganyika with...