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This week with the five-month summer water-cure season gushing at full tap, an estimated 50,000 French spaddicts are off to nearly 100 government-licensed "thermal establishments." Somewhere in France is a spa for every hydro-hypochondriac. Each spa is classified by the mineral content of its water and the diseases it is supposed to treat. Rheumatism is soothed at 55 stations; the spa at Encausse specializes in malaria; 27 other places cater to specific circulatory diseases such as heart trouble (Bourbon-Lancy), high blood pressure (Evian) and inflamed veins (Luxeuil...
Three Weeks of Penance. A typical French spa is Mont-Dore, in central France. There, every morning, patients with respiratory trouble bustle out of 275 summer villas and 80 hotels and pensions to queue up at the doors of the fountain pavilion. Each curist carries his own graduated glass, which attendants fill to the proper mark with tepid, slightly bubbly, radioactive water. After a gargle or a swig, the patient sits in a tub of water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors...
...custom of summer replacements. Last week, as Baghdad's asphalt sidewalks turned sticky-soft in the sweltering desert heat, Nuri turned over Iraq's government to Senator Ali Jawdat, then went back to poring over a map on which was circled in ink the fashionable south German spa, Bühlerhohe, near Baden-Baden. First, Nuri confided, he was going to London for a medical checkup, then off to the Black Forest. Later he was returning to London briefly to look after two grandsons who are entering Cambridge in the fall...
...world's newest symphony orchestra has its headquarters in an old yellow palace in Baden, a spa near Vienna where Austrian families take the waters. The building's former tenants were Russian security and counter-espionage agents, and the doors on the upper floors are still heavily padded, having once muffled the sounds of police work. This fact has grim significance for the new tenants, almost all of them refugees from the Russian terror in Hungary. Last week, led by Conductor Zoltan Rozsnyai, 31, onetime associate conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic, Hungary's refugee musicians were starting...
Death is a frequent caller at Eastbourne, Britain's quietly expensive and very respectable Channel resort. Like an old friend of the family, sometimes without warning, but always observing the amenities, it drops in on those who have long expected a visit, for Eastbourne is a spa where wealthy Britons in the afternoon of life retire to await its end, lapped in the comfort of hoarded memories, expensive motorcars and the fellowship of their own kind. Noisy intruders are seldom permitted to disturb the genteel gossip and endless bridge games that help time pass for the oldsters in Eastbourne...