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Most of them have another dimension, often forgotten in the sweeping political assessments of this season. Dick Morrell, a heating and building-supply contractor from Brunswick, Me., is a city selectman and a trustee of the local hospital and serves on the planning commission. Dan Theno of Ashland, Wis., is active in the Elks and the Jaycees. Richard Bell is a Georgia Tech alumni trustee and a member of the Atlanta leadership group that has helped steer that city to its current state of excellence. Hallie Wiggins, who runs the office for her husband's sewer and water facilities...
Despite the large number of problem children, there are no psychologists on the school's staff, because Hyde teachers prefer to "use our gut feelings." When that approach fails, Gauld has referred students to Richard Evans, a psychiatrist in Brunswick, Me. Like many parents of Hyde students, Evans is willing to give the school the benefit of the doubt. Says he: "Frankly, I'm puzzled. But ordinary methods don't work with the kinds of kids going to Hyde. The school does make a real effort to reach these children. It is doing something no one else...
...government has turned abroad, first, and in vain, to Russia, then to Britain's traditional allies in northern Germany. Nearly 18,000 mercenaries were hired earlier this year (at an initial cost of about ? 128,000 plus annual subsidies of ,?125,000) from the German principalities of Brunswick, Hesse-Cassel and Hanau. More than 16,000 have already set sail for the Colonies. Indeed, at least one-third of Britain's expeditionary force is likely to be German...
...George, be a king!" his mother commanded him, and no one can say that George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, has not done his best. The first English-born monarch since Queen Anne died more than 60 years ago, George proudly proclaimed in his first speech from the throne that he "gloried in the name of Briton."* Yet paradoxically, his patriotism, combined with the dogmatic, unyielding temperament he has shown since childhood, has torn apart the British Empire he inherited 16 years...
When the British first began searching for mercenary forces to put down the American Rebellion, they turned not to the German princelings of Hesse and Brunswick but to mighty Empress Catherine II of Russia. They even made a formal offer of £1 per man for 20,000 of her infantrymen, to set sail this spring. Catherine rejected the plan as "undignified." Besides, said she, "I am just beginning to enjoy peace...