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...first bill lost by just three votes. During the debate, a Tory M.P. wondered if Follick proposed to spell water u-o-o-r-t-e-r, pointed out that "some Cockneys say wa'er and Americans say watter, but how do the Scotsmen say it?" Then Glasgow's John Rankin closed that part of the discussion, said: "In Scawtland, we prrronounce it whuskey...
British scientists are also collecting antlers, especially from the Scottish Isles, whose damp green hills are apt to be relatively rich in fallout material dumped on them by Scotland's heavy rains. In this week's Nature two scientists from Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology report on an antler taken on the Island of Islay in 1957. It proved to have 126 micromicrocuries of strontium radioactivity per gram of calcium. A cross section cut from it and laid on X-ray film for 82 days gave off enough atomic radiation to take a sharp...
BEFORE dawn one day last week, Robert W. Glasgow of TIME'S Los Angeles bureau climbed into a red and white campaign plane piloted by Arizona's Republican Senator Barry M. Goldwater, gulped and recalled one observer's prediction that "one day Goldwater's going to be scraped from a mountainside.'' After a series of landings and take-offs from desert airstrips, Glasgow? was ready to predict long life for the candidate. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS. Personality Contest...
Real poetry was not a part of "Wullie" Service's spirit, or his life. Even as an English-born bank clerk in Glasgow, he dashed off doggerel for the weeklies, and burned with an adventurer's ambition to make a million dollars, write 1,000 poems, and live for a century. In hot pursuit of these ends, he hopped a freighter to Canada in 1895, a ruddy-faced, guitar-playing, wind-drifted 21-year-old fiddle-foot with a Scottish burr. He worked anywhere, at anything-swilling swine in British Columbia, tending roses...
...nature; he knew that his Old School Tie set him off from other men in Britain, and he wore it with the same mixture of pain and pride as the Blessed John Ogilvie, a Jesuit missionary, might have shown toward the halter with which he was hanged at Glasgow (1615), not far north of (nor so very long before) Orwell's social researches...