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...been translated as "Floating Scum upon the Water." Among dip-minded suburban housewives it enjoys minor fame as the birthplace of the potato chip. James Gordon Bennett was moved to entitle it "the seraglio of the prurient aristocracy." To the rheumy rich of the '90s it was "The Spa," and its eggy sulphur waters were just the ticket for constipation and gout. But now the seltzer baths belong to the state, and for eleven months out of the year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet upstate New York town with no visible means of support. Then August...
...days came early to Bad Oeynhausen, West Germany, where town officials have issued an ultimatum: no barking from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. or from 1 to 3 p.m., the hours when guests of this spa community are presumed to be drying out in bed. What a dog does (chewing up a carpet slipper can be therapeutic, a muzzle is inhibiting) is his own business, so long as he keeps quiet about it and stays off the street. Fines start...
Pulled down from the sky like a kite, Mastroianni wakes up in a cluttered bedroom at a sleazy spa. Circling sycophants plague him with questions about the movie, tiresome actresses whine that they cannot possibly go before the cameras, reporters pepper him with questions ("Are you a Communist? Are you against the A-bomb...
...outside pools, three of them simmering at more than 100°. To their boiling depths come crowds of celebrities, and not only show-business types but also such solid citizens as Steelworkers Chief David McDonald, Golfer Gary Player and Joe DiMaggio. Late last month, Banowit opened the Palm Springs Spa Hotel and Mineral Springs, a $2,500,000 edifice touted simply as "the most beautiful bathhouse in the world...
Fourteen Agua Caliente families now enjoy a handsome income from the rentals paid by the spa. But the tribe sees this as merely a beginning. Following Banowit's lead, developers have been clamoring for other patches of Indian-owned property scattered through the resort. Each of the more than 100 members of the tribe figures his share of the once scruffy acreage is worth at least...