Word: culzean
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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...
...ball, but I don't see how I can. They've sure got confidence in me." After security men cleared a small gap in the crowd, Ike blasted through it -"Good shot." the crowd murmured, and Ike shot an 89. Next morning, who should turn up at Culzean Castle but the President's old golf-playing and bridge-playing buddies, William Robinson, chairman of the board of Coca-Cola, and W. Alton ("Pete") Jones, chairman of the executive committee of Cities Service Co. Ike's aides had called them from Paris, invited them to Scotland...
Prime Minister King rose to reply: "No words of mine can tell General Eisenhower what Canadians feel for him in their hearts." Canada, he said, had no Culzean Castle such as Scotland had offered the General last November, but it did have something more enduring-9,390-ft. Castle Mountain, in the Rockies...
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