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...might be just an hour's train ride from London, but take one breath of Brighton's tangy sea air and you'll feel a million miles away from the Big Smoke. Throw in a lively caf? culture, chichi boutiques and a pebble beach that stretches into the horizon, and you have one of the best day-trips you can make from Britain's capital...
DIED. JOAN LITTLEWOOD, 87, pioneering director; in London. A 5-ft. 2-in., chain-smoking agent provocateur, Littlewood staged radical theater from her Theatre Workshop in London's East End. She had hoped her plays would attract the working class, but it was chichi West Enders who became her loyal audience for such works as Brendan Behan's The Hostage and the antiwar satire Oh What a Lovely...
...made a little-noticed trip to relive his combat memories of an earlier, less controversial conflict. A few weeks ago, Bush paid a visit to the watery grave of his Avenger bomber, downed by ground fire after a run on a radio tower on the South Pacific island of Chichi-jima in 1944. The President's trip to Iwo Jima's tiny sister island was stimulated by author James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers), who accompanied him. "I was trying to relive what went before," said Bush. "My crewmen, Ted White and John Delaney, were killed, and I lived...
...Chichi-jima Bush met a former Japanese soldier who claimed he actually saw the rescue of Bush when the submarine Finback surfaced and plucked him off his tiny dinghy. The old man related that one of his friends had remarked as they watched the swift rescue, "Surely America will win the war if they care so much for the life of one pilot." After the ceremonies, witnessed by cheering Japanese crowds waving U.S. flags, Bush said he felt some closure: "The visit was not only a very personal, emotional visit of remembrance, but it was about forgetting the brutal past...
From Asakusa, take the subway or a taxi to Meiji Jingu-Mae and the wide avenue of Omotesando. Tokyo residents call it their Champs-Elysees for its trees, street lamps and chichi boutiques. Order a hot white chocolate at the Anniversaire sidewalk cafe and watch the parade of fashion-soaked young men and women--every one of them gabbing into a cell phone...