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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dr. Beeching's Bitter Pill | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Rhodesia: The Freedom Writhers | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Where the Boys Go | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Who's a Stalinist? | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jordan: New Frontiersmen | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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