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...Scots. Early next morning, the President was in Scotland. Through the rolling fields of Ayrshire, across moors and heaths, skirting the cottage of Poet Robert Burns, the President drove to battlemented Culzean (pronounced Cul-lane) Castle high on its cliff above the Firth of Clyde. Three months after the war, the Scottish people presented to the President a nine-room apartment on the castle's top floor. Visiting the place in 1951, Mamie Eisenhower had said: "It's like a fairy tale-the kind we read about in Grimm's story book." Now, greeted by the Marquess...
...class of intellectuals sometimes distrusted by the people. Physicians, on the other hand, were never distrusted because their function came before their social status." Even the intellectual's least controversial role, as custodian of the heritage, is taken lightly in America because, says Poet W. H. Auden, "American cul ture is committed to the future." The fact is, adds Historian Daniel Boorstin of the University of Chicago, that the U.S. has never produced intellectuals in the European sense. "A great deal of the wailing heard is derived from a European notion of the role of the intellectual. Those...
...Dido and Aeneas" was good enough to start another Pudding tradition, which in many ways has proved to be a cul de sac throughout the years. The play was sent on tour for the first time and played to audiences in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia...
Nobody ever accused cocky Joe Cul-mone or quiet Willie Shoemaker of being a great jockey, but both boys know how to bring horses into the winner's circle. Six weeks ago, the figure-minded racing world noted with considerable respect that both of them had breezed right by the modern U.S. record of 319 wins in one year. Last week, on the next-to-last day of the year, Jockeys Shoemaker and Cul-mone hit the wire in a dead heat, with 385 winners apiece-just three short of the alltime mark set by Walter Miller...
...zation had not gone far enough, and that Yugoslavia was run by the "kulaks." The fact is that there are 6,500 collective farms in Yugoslavia, supporting between 1,250,000 and 1,500,000 people who are working 4,353,900 acres, or 23% of the land under cul tivation. In Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, less than 10% of the land is collectivized...