Word: baths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominican Republic's new dictator, Rafael Leonidas ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 32, was proving himself more adroit than anyone had expected. Judging-perhaps correctly-that a full-scale blood bath to avenge his assassinated father might bring the U.S. Marines pounding into Ciudad Trujillo, Ramfis was even willing to let the Organization of American States send in a team of investigators to see how well he was behaving...
...playwrights to mention it or conjecture about it; but Hollywood has strangely looked the other way. Now much-Oscared George Pal, the cinema's ace conjurer of cosmic cataclysm (War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide), has re-created this crazy continent, given it a colossal blood bath and sunk it again. In the process he has admirably fulfilled his ambition to supply escapist entertainment "with an element of wonder, stressing man's suppressed desire to travel away from himself...
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...
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...