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...bring their own chopsticks, towels and soap and not to expect amenities. Example: a woman recently checked into a large, state-run hospital in Tokyo to have a thyroid tumor removed. She was able to get a semiprivate room. The sheets were changed only once a week and the bath and toilet were down the hall. Her sharpest recollection: "I hated to go to the bathroom. Scores of cockroaches were clustered there at night." Still, she said, "the care was excellent...
Michisada-san was waiting in the big hot communal bath, and we soaked together with a grower of mulberry leaves and watched through a somewhat steamy window the fertile plain. "Eat all your food this morning," Michisada-san said. "Especially the egg. It makes for sexual energy in the middle of man." He pointed to his middle parts and laughed...
...Rome's deluxe Excelsior Hotel, with a 50% American clientele, a single room costs from $92 to $118. However, a centrally located double room with bath in a comfortable but nonswank hotel can cost as little as $37. A medium-size rental sedan, say a Fiat 131, goes for $559 a week with unlimited mileage...
...Americans visited Austria than in the same month last year, while 30% more registered in Vienna alone. Hotel and restaurant prices have been firmly kept down. A good dinner with wine or beer in a pleasant restaurant can cost around $10; a first-class double room in Vienna with bath and breakfast costs about $100, but is not even half as much in the provinces. The Austrians have developed a variety of "hobby vacations," ranging from a course in engine driving on a narrow-gauge railroad to auto racing with formula Fords. Village festivals include Tyrolean wrestling matches, boatmen...
...July Saturday afternoon, some 150 dazed travelers kept their vigil. Many had camped in the terminal for four days. "I've had it! I want a bath, I want a bed, I want clean clothes," said Sharon Mann, 23, a drama student in a formerly yellow blouse. Aleyda Warren, a Londoner who had been visiting friends in Connecticut, figured that she had spent $100 during her four days in line. Other standbys were cheerful: Bill Lockyer and his wife Joy, a retired couple from New Zealand, had seen a Broadway show (Elizabeth Taylor in Private Lives) with the money...