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...scene: Edinburgh airport. A lass working for the British Board of Trade and assigned to quiz every 30th arriving passenger flips open...
Only then did she recognize Edward ("Ted") Heath, 53, leader of the Conservative Party and aspirant Prime Minister. Last week's Edinburgh encounter was symptomatic of the plight of Ted Heath and his embattled Tories, who have been out of office for nearly six years. As Britain this week prepares to go to the polls in the eighth general election since 1945, Heath stands scant chance of moving into 10 Downing Street. Instead, British bookies were giving odds as high as 10-to-1 that Laborite Harold Wilson would become the first Prime Minister in the last 100 years...
Pleased with the success of the first two trips, Forbes took the two choral groups on another world tour in 1967. A combined performance with the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh Music Festival highlighted the tour...
...Pupils. As a Jew, Born was automatically a practitioner of what Hitler called "Jewish physics"; he was dismissed from Göttingen when the Nazis came to power in Germany. After taking refuge in Britain, he continued to teach for many more years at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. But when he returned to Germany after his retirement in 1953, he became increasingly concerned by the great ethical issues that grew out of scientific advances. Though he had not worked on the atomic bomb, he was deeply disturbed by his possible influence on those who did. "It is satisfying...
...Victor Cattrell of Edinburgh did not much care for the dark, spooky painting of a naked Eve and a leering Death-a legacy from Mrs. Cattrell's uncle that had been hanging in their living room for 15 years. "The most attractive paintings I have are those by my seven-year-old daughter," said Cattrell. Taste is taste. But when the couple decided to sell the canvas to make a down payment on a car, they found quite a market. Bidding at Sotheby's stopped at $537,600 for The Temptation of Eve, authenticated...