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Cast'e for Coal. In all Britain last week, there was probably only one community where Macmillan's choice of a successor was hailed with unmixed joy. To the 2,000-odd people of Coldstream, a Berwickshire border village flanked by 5,000 acres of Home's ancestral lands, the news of the laird's new job stirred the greatest celebration since the 6th Lord became the 1st Earl in 1605. The clan once foregathered also at Douglas Castle, or "Castle Dangerous," as Sir Walter Scott called it, on their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when...
...Coldstream villagers confessed last week that they were a little upset over Home's decision to drop his titles, but as Provost Joseph Carrick said sturdily, "To us, he'll always be the Earl...
Scot of Scots. Coldstream has been home to the Homes for at least eight centuries, and they have always been powers in the land. Their rolling farm lands were bestowed on the family by Scotland's King William the Lion in the 13th century. Later, the Homes merged with the powerful Douglas clan and inherited their vast, 50,000-acre estates in the Douglas Valley, 80 miles west of Coldstream. For several centuries, the bold, battling lairds of Douglas and Home fought the English and rustled their cattle. The 4th Earl of Douglas was acclaimed by Falstaff in Henry...
...diadem of burnished brass, inset with ersatz rubies and emeralds, adorned his handsome head, and big block letters on the back of his scarlet robe proclaimed: THE GREATEST. A Squad of Coldstream Guardsmen snapped to attention and raised their long-stemmed silver trumpets. Then, with the fanfare ringing in his ears, Cassius Marcellus Clay stalked boldly into the camp of the enemy...
...sugar mills closed down; so did the docks, railroads and airports. Hardly a store remained open. In the emergency, British technicians arrived to run essential power plants and water works if necessary. The frigate Whirlwind, later replaced by the Londonderry, steamed into Georgetown harbor to reinforce the 500 Coldstream Guards on duty in the country...