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...concerns itself single-mindedly with practicalities -the cheapest ways of getting to Europe and moving around once there, how to rent a bicycle in Copenhagen, how to read a menu in Italian, how to see the most sights at least expense (a sidewalk cafe in Paris, folk dancing in Stockholm), and most important, a list of the most elusive of all things in a strange city-clean but cheap places to sleep...
Despite his vigilance, Frommer occasionally errs. In Stockholm, the three-masted sailing ship Af Chapman is a highly recommended stopover for students on a Starvation Budget, with no mention of the fact that its hostel regulations impose a rigid 11 p.m. curfew. Conversely, Vienna's list includes at least a couple of hotels that generally rent rooms to streetwalkers and their clients, and a drinking spot that is an underworld rendezvous frequently surveyed by police. Nevertheless, says the manager of London's truly familyish Arundale Hotel, "This book has been the biggest aid to Britain since the Marshall...
...invariably been a sex kitten ever ready to sleep with a passing cat. Hollywood hired her to star opposite Paul Newman in a picture at M-G-M called The Prize. Newman has won the Nobel Prize in literature, and she plays a Swedish girl who guides him around Stockholm...
...charms include: a Japanese operation in which breasts are pumped up with liquid paraffin; a trip through a Los Angeles falsie factory; a window-shopping tour of Hamburg's bawdy-house district, where the fat hussies are on display like so many sausages; a pause for worship in Stockholm with a lady priest; a visit to a Tokyo operating room where almond eyes are reshaped into English walnuts; a look at a European beauty clinic where faces are skinned and new complexions are grown from scratch; a visit to an Australian cemetery where the white-clad members...
...full 15 years-not only as an air attache but after 1957 as chief of the air section in the Swedish Ministry of Defense, and since 1961 as a Foreign Ministry consultant. Though he drew only $9,000 annual pay, he lived in a $40,000 house in Stockholm's exclusive Djursholm district, among bank directors and diplomats, entertained frequently. Money was a motive (he may have earned as much as $100,000 for his work), but one acquaintance said: "He must have enjoyed the dangerous game and thought he was intellectually better than others...