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...Shall Rule? From Land's End to John o' Groat's, the spring air of Britain swirled alive last week with the sound of political combat-a noise deeply serious, bitterly contentious, sometimes strident with the ugly notes of class hatred, but for all that, comfortably reassuring. Election Day was coming again to the country where parliamentary democracy was born...
Boom on the Clyde. Industrial production is at an alltime high, up 10% in the past two years alone. From John o'Groat's to the Mull of Galloway, unemployment is almost unknown. Glasgow, whose Clyde-side shipyards make it the world's biggest builder of ships, is booming. More important, through energetic promotion Scots have succeeded in diversifying their industry against a new time of trouble; in the past five years, 500 firms have established new factories or made major expansions in Scotland. Where, before, its prosperity was almost wholly dependent on shipyards, foundries and blast...
...Edinburgh he took lodgings with two other Americans, and impressed them with his Spartan indifference to the deficiencies of Scottish heating, his zeal for theology, and his scrupulousness about accounting for every groat he spent from the trust fund in Philadelphia on which he was drawing...
...Bringing his three-season total to 1,888, topping the N.C.A.A. record of 1,886 set by Duke's Dick Groat...
...Thanks to geography and the far-darting teleprinter, a Fleet Street journal, by printing simultaneously in Manchester or Scotland, can be truly national, circulating almost from Land's End to John o' Groat...