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...name of the game is constitutional monarchy. By its unwritten rules, Britain's sovereign loyally refrains from controversial statements, especially when dealing with her outer domains, for whom she is the symbol of unity with Britain itself. Not so confined is Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who regularly sparks debates over the nation's "cuppas" by his talent for what he calls dontopedalogy-opening his mouth and putting his foot in it. Last week Philip kicked up a storm in kingdom and Commonwealth as well...
Discussing Commonwealth relations with 300 students at the University of Edinburgh, Philip announced that he was going to say nothing about Rhodesia, since it is a touchy topic nowadays. Rhodesia's white Prime Minister, Ian Smith, has been threatening to break the remaining ties with Britain and declare independence if necessary to preserve its racist policies, while black Africa's Commonwealth leaders have been clamoring for Britain to force Smith to hold biracial elections for a new constitution within the next three months. Philip, however, did not say nothing. "I recognize," he remarked, "the impressions of many Africans...
Beyond the large, established sessions of summer music in Vienna (through June 20), Lucerne (Aug. 14-Sept. 9), Salzburg (July 26-Aug. 31), Holland (June 15-July 15), Edinburgh (Aug. 22-Sept. 11) and Glyndebourne (through Aug. 15), there are several smaller, off-the-beaten-track music festivals of special interest. Herewith a sampling of the most distinctive...
James M. Hersog, of Quincy House and Lockport, N.Y., will study physiology at the University of Edinburgh. Philip D. Straffin, of Adams House and Scarsdale, N.Y., will do research in mathematics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge...
Died. Sir Edward Victor Appleton, 72, renowned British physicist and principal of Edinburgh University, who in 1924 proved that there were ionized layers in the upper atmosphere by bouncing short-length radio waves off them, a technique that made worldwide radio communication practicable, led directly to Britain's development of radar (thus giving the R.A.F. a crucial advantage over the numerically superior Luftwaffe), and won for the pioneering scientist the 1947 Nobel Prize in physics; of a stroke; in Edinburgh...