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...life (1961-69), and serves up a smorgasbord of anecdotage in the current Ladies' Home Journal. Tidbits: The Kennedy boys were not shy about their bodies, as Widow Dallas discovered when Mother Rose Kennedy asked her to deliver towels to Ted and three friends in the sauna. In the White House, John F. Kennedy once summoned her for an interview while he was soaking in the tub. "I was so uncomfortable that I took a washcloth off the rack and threw it to him to cover up. After all, he was the President of the United States!" Because...
...elegantly designed rooms. In addition to free color TV and vibrating bed, Royal Inn rooms typically have white satin bedspreads, deep-pile carpeting, antique-white furniture and a full wall-size mural. Some rooms are equipped with bars, refrigerators and log-burning fireplaces. All Royal Inns have swimming pools, sauna baths and therapy pools at no extra charge. Some, like the year-old Royal Inn-at-the-Wharf in the company's headquarters town, San Diego, have a gymnasium. The Royal Inn planned for Anaheim, Calif., will have a movie theater with free admission for guests. Royal rooms...
...camera, he lives in Hollywood Hills in a home that sports a pool and sauna. He swims, bowls, has regular massages and rejects the notion that there is any significance in the fact that he is black. "Why does it have to be a question of black and white? I'm a comic, and my thoughts are reflected in what I do. I don't like to talk politics." But Flip tries to be more philosophical about his relationship with his audience. "I give an honest day's work, and I'm well paid...
...ends in 1974, says he will not run a fourth time-but few Finns believe him. The President takes pride in his working friendship with the Kremlin leadership. Many of its members belong to his "Helsinki Club," a select group of statesmen who have visited Helsinki and shared a sauna with him; Western members include Dean Rusk, King Baudouin of the Belgians and Sweden's Ex-Premier Tage Erlander. Finland's cabinet has its own version of the club, meeting regularly in the sauna at Kesaranta, the Premier's official residence, to combine parboiling and policymaking. Within...
BLOOD TINGLING. While you recuperate in the sauna bath, a gentleman technician sprinkles the heated rocks with Russian pine oil and "a dash of eucalyptus for the inhalation." Then it's on to the Swiss shower, a kind of liquefied Iron Maiden. You stand surrounded by a firing squad of nozzles and whooosh!-needle-like jetsprays of chilling water riddle you from 16 different directions. "That," says a gentleman technician, helping you into a gold terry-cloth toga, "ought to get the old blood circulating...