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...last time a pastor tried to practice the Anglican ritual in a Church of Scotland kirk, a stout-armed Presbyterian shopwoman named Jenny Geddes hefted the stool she was sitting on and threw it at his head. That was in 1637, in St. Giles Church. Edinburgh. This week the Church of Scotland's General Assembly sat down in Edinburgh to thresh out a proposal that has already provoked an almost equally violent reaction from parishioners, press and clergy. The plan: 1) unite the Established Church of Scotland and the Established Church of England; 2) standardize the administration of their...
...from the church by outraged dominies. Anglicans had little to say, possibly because the addition of elders to an already existing hierarchy is not so shocking to them as the creation of a new hierarchy is to Scots. But privately, Church of England leaders kept their ears trained on Edinburgh. Last week the General Assembly in Edinburgh elected Dr. George F. MacLeod its new moderator despite his known promerger leanings, vigorously shushed a delegate who opposed his election. But whatever sounds of ecumenical accord come this week from the General Assembly, in the background there will be the rumble...
Stately Homes. Europe is still the first love of footloose Americans. Britain expects 5% more Americans than last year's 255,400, who enriched Her Majesty's dollar reserves by $148 million. One-fifth of them will do the Windsor-Stratford-on-Avon-Warwick Castle-Edinburgh packaged run. But more and more are turning up in Torquay, the poor man's Riviera, and in Brighton, Britain's Atlantic City, or in the picturesque homes of British aristocracy which have been thrown open, at a fee, to tourists. Last week the Duke of Bedford...
When Canadian Publisher Roy Thomson bought Scotland's whiskery morning Scotsman (circ. 56,091), he stropped his razor and announced that he planned changes that "would be obvious to any American newspaper operator." Moving into the Scotsman's gingerbread headquarters on Edinburgh's North Bridge, Thomson stepped up news of the Commonwealth and hired longtime Glasgow Daily Record Editor Alastair M. Dunnett to brighten and broaden the influential Scotsman's local coverage...
...Commonwealth Tour," sounded a bit dull, and his audience-2,000 teen-agers imported by the Ministry of Education's Imperial Institute from schools in London and the Home Counties-was not the easiest kind to handle. Nevertheless, from the minute His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, opened his mouth, he had his captive audience captivated...