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Generations of Britons have made a hobby of Bradshaw, the defunct, encyclo pedic railway guide that Sherlock Holmes knew by heart. A fervent Brad shaw buff's severest censure of a fellow devotee: "He is rather weak on his Sun day locals." Nonetheless, Beeching last week was going ahead with a 1 5-year, $4.2 billion cost cutting program. "Railways," sighed a British Transport Commission official, "will never be the same again...
...displayed pictures of both white and black political leaders, showing fiery, black Nationalist Kenneth Kaunda alongside white supremacists and Uncle Toms. To protest, 15 African girls pranced into the Build a Nation office last week. When the manager refused to remove Kaunda's picture, off came their clothes. Buff naked, the strippers danced about and chanted: "Kaunda, Kaunda, Freedom now, cha cha cha." Local cops finally arrived, wrapped blankets around the freedom writhers and hustled them off to the clink...
...guarantee. A girl enters to the tune of an unlikely song such as Sweet Georgia Brown, clanked out by an instrumental trio. Slowly she sheds a shoddy evening gown while the audience yells, "Take it off, Baby, take it off!" When she has stripped down to pure buff, she bumps and grinds for a few minutes, then glides around the circle of ringside tables, stopping whenever a clean-cut, brush-topped young man reaches out to touch-test her salient features...
...rungs of success had been remarkably fast. Although he did not join the party until 1945, nine years later he was Deputy Premier, chief of the secret police and a member of the Politburo. Barak also has an unusual nonpolitical record-as a championship pole vaulter, theater buff, especially of avant-garde plays, and fan of "forbidden" jazz records that his two teen-age sons often brought back from France and Italy...
...some time. Jordan's gay, gutty King Hussein, 26. has shown signs of settling down. Once a lavish aviation and sports-car buff, he has not had a new plane or car in three years. Recalling a Washington visit, he often says earnestly: "Our main problem is how to fit President Kennedy's vision and energy to Jordan's problems." Fortnight ago Hussein acted with vision, energy and political daring...