Word: sauna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old courts in suburban Winnetka financed by the Arthur C. Nielsens (of ratings fame) and the swish Lake Bluff Bath and Tennis Club, whose ultra-exclusive membership (an applicant must have "good tennis manners and be a nice person") has access to squash courts, an ice-skating rink, sauna and toboggan hill in addition to two quality indoor courts. Even Washington, D.C., minus a single indoor club to its name until last fall, today has two, which furnish a total of six courts...
...Rolls-Royce, an oilman had borrowed his Bentley, and all seemed right with the world. The world, that is, of what Mills likes to call VIPIs (Very Important People Indeed). "I think we've made it," said Big John Mills. "Now where are we going to put the sauna...
...appeal that is a far cry from the cramped, pavement-bound image of its original version. The new apartment offers not only an air space of one's own, without the nuisance of home keeping, but throws in most of the facilities of country living: swimming pools, sauna baths, tennis courts, golf courses, marinas, landscaped acres for postprandial strolling, and playgrounds for the young. And usually closer to town...
...Hamptons' most illustrious and most retiring painter, Willem de Kooning, turned architect and built his own house-over and over again. A huge, $150,000-plus modern mansion with all the daring angularity of De Kooning's art, it has a 30-ft.-high studio and a sauna in the basement, but it is still unfinished after four years of continuous construction, destruction and rebuilding...
...Island, Ga., Zion National Park, Utah, Banff, Alta., Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., and College Station, Texas. A similar program, though not college-sponsored, is provided by Colorado's Aspen Institute, which runs five two-week courses through the year, with the added lure of skiing and sauna bathing. "The day is coming," says Columbia Graduate School of Business Dean Courtney C. Brown, "when companies will regard refreshment of their management teams as being as important as replacing obsolete machines. The idea that you can get all your education in the first two decades of life has been pretty well...