An avowed aim of the 1962 Transport Act was to concentrate the BRB's attention on running trains.

Saddam Hussein was rumored to have many doubles.

And to have a servant take up her scolding as an unpardonable offence, and persist in quitting her place, just when she had learnt all her work, and was so useful in the household—so useful that the Fräulein could never put up with any fresh, stupid housemaiden, but, sooner than take the trouble of teaching the new servant where everything was, and how to give out the stores if she was busy, she would go back to Worms.

He was seeing life in the raw, and it was a different life from what he had known within the printed books of his library.