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Another way to keep in shape is to take a two-week Slimcruise from London, which promises that travelers will return 10 Ibs. lighter after daily sessions with dietitian and masseur. In a way, the trip is also a sadists' special; friends and spouses of the slimmers can go along for the ride, do not have to join in the calorie counting-and pay $42 less than the suffering slimmers...
...Besides the oath book ceremony, there are luncheons given by the leadership, and the little gestures that any politician appreciates. Daniel Inouye found his reception "extremely good, embarrassingly good. The senior members go out of their way to be nice to you; they even took me around to the masseur...
Such is the simple plot of this new novel by V. S. Naipaul, 29, a Hindu who made a name for himself in his first novel, The Mystic Masseur, which recorded with sweet and sour irony the ways of the colony (291,000) of expatriate Indians who live in Trinidad. What counts is not the plot but the flavor of their slap-happy lingo and picaresque customs, and it all ought to be as much fun as a barrel of tonka beans in Tobago sauce. But Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy...
...most had gone for the adventure. "Plenty of lolly [money] and plenty of fun," said a South African masseur who had joined Katanga's army. One adventurer nostalgically recalled a successful campaign against a U.N. supply depot. "We lived like kings on the loot we found there," he says. "A pile of corned beef and 150,000 bottles of beer...
While I am grateful for Mrs. Lyndon Johnson's observation about my lost-and-found talents ("He can find anything from lost luggage to a masseur"), I find that having a statement such as this appear in TIME is not without its problems. There have been so many requests coming in by mail and telephone to locate this, that and the other that I am beginning to feel like a junior-grade private eye. The only thing I really found on this trip was three very talented campaigners. If the menfolk would sit by and let these ladies take...