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Wherever he traveled around the country in 1976, campaigning for the nomination against Jerry Ford, Reagan thought about his new retreat. In motel rooms he would step off the bedroom and bath to get an idea of room dimensions, and on the plane he drew floor plan sketches. Often he would return exhausted to Los Angeles on a Saturday night, only to leave early the next morning for a day at the ranch. He put up a fence made out of used telephone poles, carting in the 22-ft. lengths and chain-sawing them down...
...even held wedding banquets in their tubs with the guests half-submerged in the water." Rudofsky also frowns on the chlorination, artificial scents and hygienic filters favored by contemporary communal splashers. Says he: "Americans have a long way to go in overcoming the Puritan disgrace over a simple convivial bath combining hot water, naked bodies and good food...
Citibank pushes its traveler's checks by showing a couple vacationing in Japan going native in a public bath: the wife cringes in embarrassment as a real native not only edges closer to make conversation but threatens to stand up to welcome the outlanders. The California Avocado Commission promotes the nutritional value of its green "love food" with the help of aging Sex Symbol Angie Dickinson, 49, who in December will sprawl across two pages of recipes in some 18 national magazines. The copy asks: "Would this body lie to you?" Ads for B.V.D.s, now made by Union Underwear...
Fadden has been around so long that some of his more unorthodox training procedures seem almost ordinary by now. His aversion to whirlpools is well known, if not widely shared, among Dillon regulars. "These guys who take two showers a day or use the (whirlpool) bath, they're losing all the oils in their skin. They'll get all itchy for sure. Me, I take one bath a week." And then he laughs...
...where she kept a flashlight as protection against muggers. Lady Barnett was convicted and sentenced to pay $650 in fines and court costs. Said she: "I have only myself to live with, and I can live with myself." Four days later, she was found electrocuted in her bath, apparently a suicide...