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...officers came to question him further. As the Egyptians tell it, Amer apparently swallowed a "large amount of poison pills" after they arrived, but was rushed to a hospital by the officers before they could become fatal. Back home the next day, he left his guards and entered a bathroom, where he swallowed more poison pills that he had concealed beneath an adhesive plaster on his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Tough Times for Nasser | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

...difficult because of the promiscuity involved; whereas adult heterosexuals average four recent contacts and teen-agers six, homosexuals average up to twelve.) Posing as a poll taker, she talked her way into his Back Bay apartment. When she gave him the bad news, he gagged, ran to the bathroom and vomited. When he emerged, he fainted dead away. "Luckily," says the nurse, "he fainted right next to his well-stocked bar, so I just reached over and poured a bit of brandy into him." Restored, he named his contacts. Another homosexual who went voluntarily to the clinic took his gonorrhea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Health: VD Detectives | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...singer," he says, "but an entertainer with an ability to read the mood of an audience." According to Ho's reading, his fans have left their inhibitions on the mainland and want a come-on-strong virility. They don't even mind his occasional bathroom humor. There is a pidgin Hawaiian expression, "Letta go your blouse," roughly meaning "anything goes." That is Ho's approach-and appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entertainers: Trader Ho | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

...settled down in his wire cage, which protruded into the building, allowing him to watch the twelve white and 39 Negro prisoners-some of them "close custody" convicts who must be guarded at all times. When one prisoner, following standard practice, asked permission to leave his bunk for the bathroom, Lovett thought nothing about it. The next moment a riot erupted-or in Dixie parlance, a "ruckus." Normally, it involves some shouting and vandalism to let off steam. In this case, it killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: A Fatal Ruckus | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...Frederick III discovered the therapeutic effects of Bad Gastein's thermal waters, the tiny Alpine village has been called "the Spa of Kings." Kaiser Wilhelm spent 20 seasons there, and it remains a favored haven for pashas and potentates. The sprawling, four-story hotel, opened in 1909, boasts bathrooms with 7-ft.-sq. tubs, marble floors and walls, and taps for mineral as well as plain water. ¶-Park-Hotel Adler in Hinterzarten, Germany. An ancient Black Forest inn that dates back to 1446, the Adler has been in the Riesterer family for 14 generations, during which time everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Aristocrats of the Continent | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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