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...Edinburgh one night last week, a stocky, square-faced woman with a fiery glint in her eye strode determinedly into a performance of Sydney Goodsir Smith's The Wallace, one of the highlights of the Scottish capital's annual festival of music and drama. As the tale of Sir William Wallace's† wars with England ended and the orchestra broke into God Save the Queen, Scottish Nationalist Wendy Wood, 66. stayed in her seat and hissed. Then, while tweedy Englishmen and their sensibly shod wives, stared in amazement, Wendy led a scattering of supporters...
...Seoul last week, South Korea's newly elected National Assembly at last chose a chief of state to replace deposed President Syngman Rhee. By a vote of 208 (out of 259) the Assembly named as President 62-year-old Posun Yun,* a British-educated (Edinburgh University) Presbyterian who, as onetime mayor of-Seoul, acquired something of a Herculean reputation by cleaning up the city's streets...
...under the new constitution, the Premier will be the real power. Public choice is still Chang, 60, a U.S.-educated lawyer and a Roman Catholic. But he is being challenged within his own party by Yoon Bo Sun, 62, an oldtime Korean aristocrat trained in geology and archaeology at Edinburgh University, who feels Chang is a Johnny-come-lately in the Democratic Party...
...assorted lords and ladies are competently rendered, although only Elliott Sullivan's North-umberland and Pirie MacDonald's Douglas merit note. The latter is as Scots as an Edinburgh scone and a delight to hear. Falstaff's company remain in the memory longer than the nobility do--a slatternly Mistress Quickly (Alice Drummond), a frowsy and frazzled Doll Tearsheet (Patricia Falkenhain), a red faced, guileless Bardolph (Dana Elcar...
...complete list of Ike's degrees, but notes the following: Queen's University, Belfast ('45); Louvain ('45); Oxford ('45); Toronto ('46); Boston University ('46); Richmond ('46); Texas A&M ('46); Gettysburg ('46); Harvard ('46); Norwich ('46); Edinburgh ('46); Cambridge ('46); Lafayette ('46); Princeton ('47); Columbia ('47); Pennsylvania ('47); West Virginia ('47); Rutgers ('48); Williams ('48); Yale ('48); Jewish Theological Seminary ('48); State University of N.Y. ('48); Santo Domingo ('48); Caen ('48); Temple...