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Show mliak" icrf lookin at you, kid s 1 Well, let me put it this way The porter, a fellow named Nick Smith, showed us where the annex" was The "annex" is the latrine head, or potty , depending on stHsas9 aimiiralk 4y 1 Wr your background, and at though it is only three feet square, it doubles the size of the "bedroom" when you open its door The he'd loom, for which you pay damn near $250 from Los Angelos to Seattle, looks good Until you find out that other people are occupying the other half, and Nick is about to shut off the partition Shutting otf the partition would give a lifer" from Folsom pen a ease of c laustrophobia TEEN-AGgirls had the other half of the bedroom " We kept the partition open between the two parts of the room all day, until Libbv and Ilohcaon ijKnight Newspapers Writer (jd-org- e NOBODY like mine HS laiatioii'i It started out at the Union Station in Los Angeles Thats where you go to take an Amtrak train. All my life, I have wanted to take a train trip with real class I rode troop trams in the eai ly 1950s. and I thought they were rotten, what with guys sleeping on top of guys tn the aisles, and 1 said to myself that one day I would take a train trip the w ay Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Green street took a train trip They always took a tram trip m a bedroom or compartment, and when the porter answ ered ihe door, someone would be shot to death 1 need a gun for this trip," I said to my wife, and she bought for my own personal use a yellow plastic water-pisto- l, designed like a German Luger was expecting the big thing, you know The fat cat compartment, a fourth of a train car all to yourself After all, my travel agent had booked me for a bedroom I LOOKING back on it now, must say that the troop 1952 was not so bad And it was free, too You paid for it This time I paid for a Bogart bedroom, and what did I get from 1 train of after all E Cruise the South Seas on ships as friendly and warm as Polynesia. . nr - w . X.. $ train had quit, as did the dining car. and all because of a busted steam pipe Steam pipes run the length of Amtrak trains, because all trains ran on steam when those cars were built NOW IT was nighttime, and Nick came by to makeup the berths They are not made up, they are put dow n, and fiom that moment on, you cannot open the annex door without one of the secrets that Harry Houdini took w ith him to the grav e One family boarded the train for a bedroom that night with about four kids, and the father spent the whole night standing m the two foot wide corridor, just sort of shaking his head Alt night, mind you Comes the dawn, and 1 ha e to figure out how to get out of the upper berth Since February, m an incident on a racetrack, I have suffered iiom a moibid fear of fal ling After study ing the Am-trasystem. I slid slowly to the floor Then the dance began The Amtiak shuffle Til UTS WHEN' the wife says, Why aie you getting diessed and you say it is to get out the the only door, because two people cannot occupy a space foi one person and so she starts to get dressed, too, and jou OFFERS ROCKY OI ith ou can bai(l Hn,,lulu fot n ALL st t1 a M WORLD TRAVEL ' RUTH 9 days departs i 11 II (iiii-i- Pacific for East 1 only $559. 8 days 2 groups each month from $299.37 BEST OF HAWAII: 10 days TAHITI 8 Days weekly Friday departures Departs Feb. 2a-G- $869. $589 n!y CRUISES, CRUISES, CRUISES Many from which to choose Call or Write for information (801)582-030- 3 216 South 13th East Salt lake City, Utah 84102 ) 1 SHIELDS CHOICE OF MEXICO f 1 Nov. 5 CLAWSON and an excellent start sorve you at no extra cost GRAND CANARY ISLANDS: Mar. IJ -t k And so you turn this way and that way. like Laurel and Hardy in an old movie I recalled at the moment, and in no time at all (oh, 10 minutes or so) you are back into your own clothes But one of you is now crammed in the annex and the other is in the corridor, and Ill never know how Bogart got that whole camera crew in therefor that murder shot CHOOSE FROM y 2 6 C back-to-bac- ked in - 49-da- I k loc ... y I I that you are THE MARVELOUS NEW MOUNTAIN jit & I think you have your in one of my sleeves, and she says You have one of your arms in one of my sleeves, and you discover say, arm The very finest group programs quality travel for the least possible cost! a lound trip, w ith sailings Jan- 8 and Feb. 14. UlwS'O cruise March 13. Je a special longer cruise a's0 QH w ith an alternate 14 port itinerary EZjJpk that includes Tasmania and ily both the South and North Islands of New Zealand. Its 49 days round The ships. The SS Maiiposa and t. 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