Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimable Ernest M. Frimbo is the Baron Munchausen of railroads, with a puff of Lucius Beebe and a chuff of Cervantes thrown in. Frimbo-the "world's greatest railroad buff'-is the brain child of Rogers E.M. Whitaker, who has himself bumpety-thumped across 2,334,000 miles of rails from Moscow, Russia to Moscow, Ill. By inventing Frimbo-lexicographer, gourmet, jazz fan, connoisseur of contessas and, of course, compulsive investigator of trains-Whitaker has transmuted what might have been a soda-water sermon on the glory and decline of the trains into a Jules Vernean adventure that...
Edward F. Chamberlain, House superintendent since 1947, later explained that the handmade key of hospitality originally fit two of the Kirkland House gates. In 1932 it disappeared, only to be found in 1956 in a New Hampshire pawnshop by a Harvard graduate and key buff who returned it to the House...
...facts about the "Chess Match of the Century." At one point in the hectic go, no-go negotiations, Darrach reports that despite diplomatic requests from such noted peacemakers as Henry Kissinger ("In short," Kissinger said later, "I told Fischer to get his butt over to Iceland"), Bobby, the exercise buff, refused to budge because he could not get Jack La-Lanne on Icelandic TV. One of Darrach's more startling disclosures is that Fischer, assured of a $125,000 purse and still demanding more, inexplicably and in all seriousness asked Darrach to help him draft a letter to Spassky...
...reciprocate, Schecter presented Castro with a copy of Khrushchev Remembers, the Soviet leader's memoirs in which the Cuban Premier figures prominently, but failed-not for lack of trying -to lure Sports Buff Castro into a basketball game. "I had the feeling," concluded Schecter on returning home, "not so much of the heavy hand of socialism as of meeting a family member who had rebelled and wanted to rejoin the clan with respect and not be reminded of his or our mistakes...
...past six weeks the beaches of Venice, Calif., have become dimpled moonscapes of posteriors slowly ripening in the sun. There are other views. "If you got 'em, you should show 'em," crows Yolanda Davis, 20, a brown-breasted Tetonesque dancer who bathes in the buff at Venice. "There's nothing nicer than a totally tan body with no white stripes of civilization in between," philosophizes Peter Simon, 27, a freelance photographer on Martha's Vineyard. On a sunny Saturday the secluded dunes on Free Beach in Truro, Mass., reveal 500 bare beach bunnies of all ages...