Word: spa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Formosa, Choi was packed off to recuperate at Peitow, a sulphurous spa near Taipei. There Choi woke up one morning to find he was paralyzed from the hips down. He telephoned a friend at Taipei's Friends of China Club. "I'm at Peitow, and I'm paralyzed," he said, and added-in his awareness that Peitow is a famed carousing place: "Please don't laugh...
...mass-production missiles (the Army's ground-to-air Hawk and the Navy's air-to-air Sparrow III), is subcontractor for electronic devices for twelve other missiles and for equipment for the 6-52 and the 6-58. It is also manufacturing transistors, and their successor spa-cistors, for everything from field radios to satellite innards, hopes to raise its $60 million-a-year civilian business to $150 million by 1965 with such items as weather radar, tiny radar sets for pleasure boats, diathermy equipment for hospitals...
...days when Europe's elite took the cure at Baden-Baden, the spa's fashionable hotels were equipped to handle all comers, no matter how whimsical or wellborn. But in these days, when Baden-Baden's hotelkeepers concentrate on the methodical ranks of Germany's industrial aristocracy, who make their bookings well in advance, no one was quite prepared for the telephone call that came from the West German protocol office...
When the 32 Saudi royal visitors (all male), their aides, and seven tons of their luggage at last arrived in a motorcade of 50 cars and trucks escorted by screaming German police cars, Baden-Baden was ready. A Saudi Arabian flag had even been found tucked away in the spa director's attic and streamed triumphantly in the breeze beside a palm tree hurriedly erected in the hotel park. King Saud, a bit testy from the rheumatic pains which had brought him to the spa, was shown his own bed and told that it had once been slept...
Monarchist Lauro, who rushed back from his favorite spa of Fiuggi, labeled the whole affair a "political maneuver" by the Christian Democratic government to cut into his political strength in southern Italy. He accused the government of "throwing mud at the fair city of Naples," scoffed at the possibility of a "few missing millions," and cried: "Rome is trying to make an assault landing in the territorial waters of Naples." Said a Lauro aide: "Every real Neapolitan can only admire the way we operate...