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...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 to complete the morning treatment. The afternoon brings more of the same. Specialties elsewhere: bath and poultice, shower in a hammock, intestinal irrigation "drop...
GILBERTO FLORES MUÑOZ, 55, is the toiling, famously honest Minister of Agriculture. Flores Muñoz directed Ruiz' 1952 campaign, has since cracked down on corruption and launched ambitious new projects in his department. He is also a tub-thumping politician...
...Beck are "the same kind of immoralists"-Beck for pickpocketing his union members, Ike for pickpocketing U.S. taxpayers. A shouting duel ensued. Declaring ex-Republican Morse a turncoat, Capehart cried that any such man is "intellectually dishonest and immoral." In rebuttal, Morse shouted that portly Homer Capehart is "a tub of rancid ignorance." Embarrassed by the rule-breaking spat in public, other Senators also joined in the shouting as peacemakers. Finally Wayne Morse proposed that the most intemperate salvo of his cannonade be stricken from the minutes. Thus, Capehart is no tub as far as the Congressional Record is concerned...
...inherent worth of the individual . . . the ideals and aims of democracy." Its ideals were so loftily stated and its youthful mistakes so widely publicized that it inevitably won the reputation of being the Wild One of philanthropy. In launching his investigation of tax-exempt foundations, Tennessee's tub-thumping B. Carroll Reece solemnly warned of Ford's "subversive and un-American propaganda activities." Westbrook Pegler called it a "front for dangerous Communists," and Pravda accused it of "the sending of spies, murderers, saboteurs and wreckers to Eastern Europe...
...living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled bath with a circular tub of cerulean Italian tiles. Architect Hampton built the house to suit the owner's specific demands: "A home where I and my friends could be comfortable in shorts or a dinner jacket...