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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...
...helped me to my feet, and we walked out to the showers. I had been soaking under the shower for about fifteen minutes before I asked Abbott why he went back to wrestle day after...
Even in the violence-prone Philippines, there had never been anything like it. First, as he emerged with his wife from Manila's Legislative Building, where he had just delivered his state of the nation address, President Ferdinand Marcos was greeted with a shower of bottles, sticks and placards. Four days later, a mob of 4,000 students stormed the Malacanang presidential palace, ramming a stolen fire truck through a gate. Four students were killed and hundreds were injured in the eight-hour fracas, the worst organized demonstration since the island nation of 38 million gained independence...
...been full of warnings against the dangers of drink, not to mention the expense. A pint of vodka sells for $3 to $4, which takes a big bite out of the average worker's $134 monthly salary. In addition, any time a drunk gets hauled off for a shower and a night's sleep in one of the sobering-up stations that are maintained by the government, he is charged another...
...pretty much fills up the afternoon," he said. "You know, I get up at 2:30. take a shower until three, then sit in front of the fan in my room for an hour...