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CHAPTER I La Costa The La Costa Hotel and Country Club is what its brochures promise. The rooms are bright, large and well furnished. The weather at its worst in this part of Southern California, about twenty-five miles north of San Diego, is usually good for golf and tennis. Golfers play a 27-hole course that winds its way around horse trails and split-level condominiums, and it is challenging enough for professional tournaments. Tennis players find twenty-five first-class courts and a teaching staff that is headed by Pancho Segura and claims Jimmy Connors among its former students. The pool is Olympic-sized and nicely tiled. The rolling lawns that cover the 5,600-acre resort complex built in the middle '60s are bright green and manicured. The poolside snack bar serves thick, fresh sandwiches. The cocktail lounge serves generous drinks and lavish vegetable hors d'oeuvres. For $7 to $65.50 a session, depending on the services required, the famous La Costa spa offers a variety of treatments to exhilarate the most listless body—massages, herbal wraps, whirlpools, saunas, manicures, pedicures, steam baths, exercise classes, bath oils, skin lotions, special shampoos. 11