Word: spa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that there would be that much left to hide. He has already been described in a nude health-spa romp in New York magazine; Esquire has reported, among other brief encounters, his coupling with the ex-wife of a sex-magazine editor. Talese promises to tell in the book about his surprisingly tranquil domestic life. His wife Nan, a stunningly attractive senior editor at the Manhattan book publishing house of Simon...
...regard to "Where to Take the Waters," it is interesting to note that the location of the only hospital constructed for the Continental Army was Yellow Springs, Chester County, Pa. Yellow Springs, site of an iron spring, was a popular colonial spa serving 400 to 600 guests...
...time when no new literature worth reading is being published in Czechoslovakia. The "official" literature oscillates between two genres: trashy novels and political pamphlet. Mr. Muller can again serve us as the example of the first type, with his cheap would-be sexy novel. "With Elvira at the Spa...
After years of dutifully ministering to his flock, the Rev. Thomas Marshfield, 41, begins fleecing the ewes. When his trysts with the church organist and other assorted supplicants are exposed, Marshfield is shipped West for a month's rest to a desert spa for troubled clergymen. The regimen is ecumenical. There is golf in the afternoon, poker at night and daiquiris whenever. Mornings are spent alone at an obligatory typewriter, where orgies of therapeutic confession are the order...
...February 1973, Nixon aides met at the LaCosta spa near San Diego to plan a counteroffensive on Watergate. According to Ben-Veniste, one participant, Special Counsel Richard Moore, reported to Nixon on April 19 of that year that the need to pay hush money to the Watergate defendants had been discussed at LaCosta. Shortly thereafter, Ehrlichman reassured Nixon that Moore's memory about LaCosta "had become feeble beyond measure." Nixon, in turn, expressed satisfaction to Haldeman that Moore's powers of recall had "dimmed...