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...their tight little isle the British have dreamed and schemed of a symphony of nations, of what Foreign Secretary Robert Anthony Eden has called an "orderly law-abiding" society which will make the world "one village street from Edinburgh to Chungking." This week, in the pessimism following Casablanca, such concepts seemed far more a dream than a scheme...
...Britannica (whose name was chosen merely to indicate that it was written in English) was first issued in 1768 in Edinburgh by "a society of gentlemen in Scotland." Its first editor was a tippling friend of Robert Burns named William Smellie. Financial control passed to U.S. citizens about...
...have five sending machines in New York, three direct wires to each printer, eight linotypes equipped to handle the tapes. There are only 100 other Teletypesetters in all the world -and only two other publications use them over any comparable distance-the Edinburgh Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald, which print their London telegraph news from tape produced in London...
...several decades Britain's birth rate has been falling. Among those aroused about it is the University of Edinburgh's Professor F. A. E. Crew. Cried he recently:" A people's birth rate is the measure of their faith in themselves. We must build a social structure which welcomes babies for their own sake. This is no conflict of armies. It is a battle of the birth rate!" The British press has noted that Britain now has a million and a half fewer babies and a million and a half more pet dogs than at the time...
Died. Andrew Graham Murray, Viscount Dunedin, 92, famed Scottish justice, intimate adviser of Edward VII and George V; in Edinburgh. He was Lord President of the Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), a Lord of Appeal in the House of Lords. Besides, he claimed to have been the first Cambridge undergraduate to ride a bicycle, was an expert tennist, cricketer and fencer, remarried at 73, and celebrated his 90th birthday by throwing a cocktail party...