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...sister Lee (now married to her second husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, a Polish nobleman turned London businessman) lived according to a social pattern as undeviating as a cotillion. Winters were spent in a Park Avenue apartment (where Black Jack indulgently permitted Jackie to keep a pet rabbit in the bathtub) while Jackie attended fashionable Chapin School. At six, Jackie had her own pony, by twelve she was riding in horse shows, and her love of horses is abiding. As Jackie and Lee grew older, they met their beaux under the Biltmore clock, fox-trotted through subscription dances at the Plaza...
...built before World War II cost $6,700 a room; the Pittsburgh Hilton, finished late last year, cost $12,500 a room), Tabler says that unnecessary expenses due to obsolete building codes "can break a hotel." Older cities are not always the most backward. Dallas refused to accept a bathtub drain trap that Boston had accepted about 50 years ago. Tabler did battle, got the code updated, saved $15,000 on that one change alone...
...conference room at the Elysée Palace, which 200 years ago had been the dining salon of Madame de Pompadour. By then Khrushchev was back in Paris, but instead of sitting in the empty red plush armchair that was awaiting him, he was relaxing in a bathtub at the Soviet embassy...
Messages shot back and forth between the bathtub and the Elysée. A Soviet aide phoned to ask if the meeting was a preliminary one or a summit meeting. If preliminary, Nikita would come; if a summit, he would not-unless, of course, President Eisenhower was prepared to apologize publicly and abjectly for the U-2 spy plane and to agree to punish the guilty. After an hour of fruitless telephoning, a tight-lipped Charles de Gaulle decided to end the farce. He wrote out the Western reply: "Mr. Khrushchev's absence was registered, and General de Gaulle...
Clean and Decent, by Lawrence Wright. The natural history of the bathroom may be an unlikely subject, but the author's wit and scholarship make this book better bathtub reading than most novels...