Word: saunas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...befits such guests, Camp David boasts the kinds of services that could make King Solomon envious. Operated with military efficiency by about 100 Navy men and Marines, it can provide almost anything a President might want: a free-form heated swimming pool, a sauna, two clay tennis courts, a one-hole, three-tee golf course, a two-lane bowling alley, a trout stream, skeet-shooting and archery range, movie facilities, a wide selection of music (Richard Nixon used to stand in front of the stereo speakers and "guest conduct" his favorite symphonies fortissimo). Comments former Nixon Counsel John Dean...
...Blind Date, Kosinski constructs one moral dilemma after another. One particularly gruesome scene depicts Levanter seeking vengeance against a hotel clerk, whose betrayal of one of Levanter's Eastern European friends to the secret police resulted in the brutal crippling of his friend. Levanter lures the clerk to a sauna, knocks him unconscious, then unflinchingly shoves a saber up his rectum. While Kosinski says he himself would not have killed the clerk, making Levanter perform that act confronts the reader with the question: at what moment should life be spared. "The act generates respect for life even though...
...early '60s. Rhodesian products, notably the excellent $1.50 steaks, remain cheap by world standards. Houses and rich farm property are available at fire-sale prices. One foreign resident in Salisbury just paid $42,000 for a six-bedroom house on two acres, complete with pool, tennis court and sauna...
Dunster residents will be eligible to buy a one-year membership to the sauna for $10, or a founding membership for $50, Merolla said. The Dunster House Committee will contribute $600 to the project, he added...
...goes as planned, the sauna will be completed by November...