They said they'd dozed off after waiting 45 minutes for a slow freight to pass. . . . And in anther corner of the world, Bangkok cops announced that interested parties could obtain a definitive list of the city's bordellos from any police check station.

ODDMENTS

Says E. V. Durling in Hearst Press, "Generally speaking, who are more graceful, men or women? Men handle themselves with much more ease and grace than women. Consider the ease and grace of baseball players. Women cannot run gracefully. Even women who can walk gracefully waddle when they try to run. The male member of a great ballroom team is usually the more graceful dancer. Male golf and tennis players have a much easier and more graceful style than female players."

Chicago man complained to police a bird was chasing his dog. Cops caught and jailed the bird, an injured bittern, later turned it over to Anti-Cruelty Society. . . . Denver cops hunting burglar who swiped 30 pounds of dark brown hair, fifty 24-inch switches for making braids and three wigs, two brown, one blond. . . . Notice ads for a product called "Fairyfoot" alleged good for bunions. .

Longtime female impersonator Ray Bourbon is now Rae after Mexico operation by Dr. Emeril Szekley, supposedly "more complete and more advanced" than other publicized emasculations (they all say "My operation was better than hers."). OTHER VOICES

Atty. Gen. Brownell asks Congress for broad authority to deal with civil rights investigations and litigations, and the setting up

as a Civil Rights Department in the Justice Department, but Senator George of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee (where any such legislation must originate), isn't keen on civil rights and expressed doubts any such actions would come from this Congress. Senator Russell, also of Georgia, felt the proposal was merely a GOP play for votes.

Note Supreme Court ruling that states must provide adequate means for poor persons to appeal criminal convictions--which has been heretofore an expensive proposition. Reports of Lee Graham TV show a few weeks back (Conflict) indicate a straightforward and honest presentation on homosexuality and prejudice. Mrs. Graham made plea for understanding and presented psychiatrist Dr. Norman Levy, who urged repeal of all legal sanctions against mutually-consenting adults. WABD (NY) listener response was generally favorable, though light. Regarding the Sen. Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee's 71-pg. report on smut traffic, Sen Kefauver says: "The most insidious effect of present day pornographic materials is the portrayal of abnormal sexual behavior as being normal. Perversion for profit thus wrecks the chances of the impressionable adolescent to achieve a normal, healthy relationship upon reaching maturity."

Protests have mounted against the Alaska Mental Health Bill passed by House and pending in Senate. Called "American Siberia Bill," it proposes a federal grant of a million acres of Alaska land for a mental institution. Land grant, proponents say, is to finance the institution, not to

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