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...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...
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...
...Concorde, was one of Britain's supreme building triumphs. It resulted from the combined efforts of an unknown road builder, architect and artist named John Wood and his son John Wood Jr., who had taken over the cramped, run-down town of Bath, site of an ancient Roman spa, and rebuilt it into a showpiece of Georgian architecture and a prime example of unified English town planning. The younger Wood's supreme gambit was to take one elliptical segment of the oval form that Bernini used for St. Peter's Square, and throw it boldly along...
...Vichy, largest and most famed of the spas, where Roman officers dunked their ladies 2,000 years ago, crowds of liverish patients are going through a similar waterlogged routine. Said the director of a Vichy spa: "The Americans aren't coming, or the British either, since the Americans don't get bad livers from their colonies and the British don't get money from the Bank of England. But if you think Vichy is out of fashion, you couldn't be more wrong. We've never had such figures in our history...
Healthy Vacations. One of the incidental consequences of the French Revolution was the establishment of free spas, so that the peasant could wash out his diseases side by side with the rich man. Since World War II, the French social-security system subsidizes a trip to a spa for nearly any suffering Frenchman who can get his doctor to sign his application. Last year the government paid for between 80% and 100% of the cure cost of some 68,000 adults and children...