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...bookkeeper's son from Glasgow, Ky., Krock attended Princeton briefly, then began his journalistic career on the Louisville Herald and became Washington correspondent for the Louisville Times in 1910. He went to Paris with Woodrow Wilson, won a citation from the French government for his coverage of the Versailles peace conference, and returned to become the editorial manager at age 29 of both the Louisville Times and Courier-Journal. In 1927 he joined the New York Times, and five years later became that newspaper's Washington bureau chief...
Even so, it is a long way from national uniqueness to abolishing a centuries-old political union. In the words of Margot MacDonald, a Nationalist leader in Glasgow's Govan district, the movement is more a "vehicle of expression" than a fully articulated political organization. Though it is gaining recruits at a rate of 1,000 a month, the S.N.P. has not yet won over a majority of Scots. Instead of independence, many would be satisfied-and may indeed prefer -the formation of a Scottish parliament operating within the framework of continuing union with England. Most important, nobody...
...Scotland. Despite net emigration losses totaling nearly 20% of the population since the mid-'50s, the Scots suffer an unemployment rate twice as high as, and a standard of living 12% lower than, the rest of Britain. Despite the idyllic beauty of much of Scotland, cities like Glasgow are scarred by ugly slum districts...
...birthplace, the feelings toward him are mixed: a combination of resentment, awe and total fascination. His breakneck tour, the second in six weeks, pushed from the headlines such problems as the oil shortage and a spiraling inflation. Alternately glowering and glowing, Kissinger was pictured on TV sets from Glasgow to Miinchen Gladbach as he shook hands with Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Alec Douglas-Home, brushed breakfast crumbs from the lapels of French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, and pointed a stubby finger at NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns. No poll has been taken...
Today, like Ellen Glasgow and Sherwood Anderson, Cather has her own persistent following. In addition, students are still required to read the chaste historical novels Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock in high school English classes. Many sound things can be learned from Cather. Her writing was almost always serene and poised, and she had the ability-which perhaps cannot be taught-of making her prose move as fast as the action she was describing...