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This week in THE WORLD comes a natural sequel, a report on how a record 3,500,000 Germans are trudging off to spas to take the Kur. The story is called, forgivably enough, This Year in Marienbad...
...vessels elasticity, your heart strength, your nerves fresh vigor." Like all the 140 officially recognized watering places in West Germany, Bad Tölz is itself in the pink of condition, thanks to a booming health cult that in 1963 will lure a record 3,500,000 patients to spas offering cures for virtually every ailment known to medicine, and a few known only to Germans...
...Germans with weak eyesight flock to Bad Wiessee; those in search of "rejuvenation" swear by Austria's Bad Gastein. Aix (pronounced aches) -la-Chapelle and Bad Oeynhausen offer famed rheumatism cures. Some resorts, such as Baden-Baden and nearby Badenweiler, are known as Gesellschaftsbäder, or social spas, because patrons go there more for the crowd than the cure. Nearly all the spas advertise cures for the capitalist ailment known deferentially as Manager-Krankheit, the manager's disease. Says the owner of Baden-Baden's chic Bellevue Hotel, where Greta Garbo stayed through July without stirring...
...Miami than of Moscow, and often practice segregation-Westerners only. While Western tourists (mostly European) at first ventured East out of curiosity, they now go for the snob appeal of a Black Sea tan, or simply for fun on the cheap. Three weeks at Czechoslovakia's elegant spas of Carlsbad or Marienbad cost Westerners $125 to $175, and a fortnight's all-expense tour from Frankfurt to Bulgaria's bikini beaches starts...
...eloquent Mrs. Moore, the woman whose spirit, after she is dead, hovers over all the play's events; she comes to a mystical understanding of India, a sense of how its enervating cycle of season and its vastness make a mockery of human values and the understanding spas her will to live. Miss Quested is played by Ann Meacham, and she is stiff and frightened and honest in just the right English proportions. Fielding (Eric Portman), the old teacher who learns that Indian and English are like oil and water, is good-a rueful, dignified portrayal...