Word: saunas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Financier Robert Vesco fled the U.S. to avoid his mounting legal problems, he took along a prized possession: a Boeing 707 jetliner lavishly fitted out with a dis cotheque, a sauna for five and sleeping quarters for twelve. Vesco may have thought his expensive toy was safe, but one of his more determined creditors reckoned otherwise. In what may turn out to be one of the most bizarre asset-recovery schemes on record, Alwyn Eisenhauer, Vesco's former pilot, settled a beef against his old boss simply by talking his way aboard the plane, then flying it home...
...Haggard occupied for years. He is happiest, however, tinkering with his $50,000 model railroad: 250 freight cars, 35 locomotives and a scale replica of the Bakersfield terminal. Its main line is a kid's dream that runs through the living room, across the sun deck, through the sauna, a bathroom and a bedroom, and then out onto a trestle high above the rear patio...
...caviar-stocked club room, a brass-railed bar and a lavish grand salon. There is an art gallery, a library and a sauna in the master bedroom. Suede and leather love seats, divans and marble tables are conveniently placed, and for entertainment, Sony videotape monitors and a Thomas electric organ are available. In the gourmet galley, the chef can whip up virtually any dish from terrine of duck to soul food-served with Waterford crystal, Reed and Barton silver and gilded Noritake china...
...conversations with TIME Correspondent Leo Janos. As a rule, Walton avoids those he considers "intruders and aggressors" by retreating to a small, private world. The center of that world is his pad, a large room attached to a garage on the Brentwood estate of a U.C.L.A. fan. Pool and sauna privileges are included in the $125-a-month rent...
...staging a show called "Portable World." No gypsy could crave more items that can be folded out, inflated, worn or comfortably toted. "Body extensions"-notions to be worn by people on the move-include the "Toot-a-Loop" radio, which twists around the arm like a snake. The sauna bodysuit promises to create a hotbox effect merely by being hooked up to a portable hair dryer...