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Died. Bessie Braddock, 71, retired Laborite member of Britain's House of Commons, where she was known as the "heavyweight champion" for her rough tongue and 200-lb. frame; of a heart attack; in Liverpool. Elected from Liverpool in 1945 and ever after until she stepped down last June, Battling Bessie was much maligned for her antics in Parliament (reputedly including dancing a jig in the aisle, snoring during debates), but earned the love and respect of her constituents for her unyielding fight to improve working-class life...
...originator. "I do sometimes feel out of it," he once said, "sitting there on the drums, only playing what they tell me to play." Obviously. Ringo need no longer worry. But no one knows just what lies at the end of a country road fur, fur away from Liverpool...
Zoologists Laurence Cook and Richard Askew of Manchester University, and James Bishop of Liverpool University intermittently collected moths from 1966 to 1969 in the same area where the previous survey had been made. The results, they report in Nature, are "very highly significant." Of the 972 specimens collected, 25 were of the speckled variety, a clear indication that the peppered moth is again in the process of changing...
...time when even the young could begin to feel the chill of history. Last week London's Melody Maker magazine announced that its annual readers' popularity poll placed the Beatles in the No. 2 spot-behind the hard-rock quartet, Led Zeppelin. Since the group rose from Liverpool to world renown eight years ago, it was the first time the Beatles had ever slipped below...
Ever since four blithe spirits from Liverpool turned the world upside down, the most visible pop singers have been those who have dealt with contemporary moods and issues. Simultaneously trend setters and chroniclers of an era, they sing of grass, alienation and oppression. The very names of those who have made it are slogans of rebellion: the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Wayne Newton . . . Wait a minute-Wayne Newton? Isn't he that big, baby-faced panda, that tenor with adenoidal arrest and the grin that seems to tell you he just made all-state halfback at Waycross High? Where...