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Sorry for the Animals. Daughter of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, she was educated at India's Santiniketan University, in Switzerland and England. As the Maharajah of Jaipur's third wife (the first two are dead), she is a celebrated figure at international spas, loves polo, shot 27 tigers before she retired from the sport because "I feel sorry for the animals." Now, as candidate, she neglects her custom of riding out in a monogrammed white Jaguar at 7 a.m. to exercise her husband's 18 polo ponies, spends the time instead writing campaign speeches and running...
...ancient capital of Cracow retains its medieval splendor. So does Prague, with its beautiful setting; on the Moldau, hotels are good (single: $11.75 per day with meals). Bureaucracy controls: the hotel costs must be paid before the tourist can use his visa. A four-day tour of Bohemian spas and castles costs $38.20 with meals...
...efficient travel agent-and few survive long without efficiency-takes advantage of his happy situation to reconnoiter foreign hotels, bistros and showplaces for his customers. He not only is on the look for new spas and even new nations to tout (one favorite this year: Nepal), but takes care to learn the right replies to the hushed queries that are bound to be put to him by first-time travelers: "Where are there plenty of young men around?" "I have a weak heart; how is the altitude?" "My husband snores; can we get separate rooms?" Finding a Field. Some...
Fringe Benefits. Manufacturing is growing fastest in the Gold Coast tourist spas, where any company can attract employee talent with the free fringe benefits of sun and surf. Dade County (Miami) leads the state with 96 new plants in the first half of 1957; Broward County (Fort Lauderdale) is second with 51 plants. Pinellas County (St. Petersburg) is being transformed from a senior citizens' haven to a humming technical center. Since 1956, General Electric's X-Ray division has established a $7,000,000 plant, and Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. has opened a $4,500,000 missile-parts...
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...