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Biscuits & Spirits. "John Brown was thirty-five, with red-gold hair and beard and a precisely shaven upper lip, handsome in a big, scrubbed, leathery sort of Highland way. His eyes were remarkable, fierce and kindly, gentle and naming: but who among the aristocratic Household noticed the eyes of a kilted crofter, faintly odoriferous no doubt of sweat, who lived among the grooms...
...West Highland white terrier imported from Britain about two years ago by the Wishing Well Kennels of Little Falls, N.J. "No dog came near to him," said Judge Heywood R. Hartley, a Richmond, Va., printing company executive...
Quite a Relief. Westminster immediately brought Simon a windfall in dog food testimonials and television appearances. It also assured the West Highland terrier breed of an upsurge in popularity, though that can be a questionable blessing. "Popularity is a curse," says Handler Larry Carswell, a spaniel specialist. "People want to be able to say, I got one like the one that won at . . .' or 'This is a distant cousin of the one who won at . . .' There's indiscriminate breeding right away. Pretty soon you can buy one at Macy's." But Ch. Elfinbrook Simon...
...week's end the outcome of the costly fight around Due Hoa was still in doubt. But U.S. planners are pressing forward on half a dozen fronts: in the highland region bordering Laos-a favorite Red supply route-the U.S. is arming and organizing some 6,000 mountaineer tribesmen long neglected by President Diem's government and wooed by the Communists. The U.S. is superintending the building of jungle airstrips capable of handling planes as big as C-47s, and encouraging the development of auxiliary arms, ranging from communications teams to girl sharpshooters. The U.S. is also sponsoring...
...Highland Park. Mich. (pop. 43,000), all ten of the city's schools were closed temporarily due to a suit charging segregation at one all-Negro school. In New Rochelle. N.Y.. where Negro parents recently won a similar case involving predominantly Negro Lincoln Elementary School, the school board dutifullv transferred 267 of Lincoln's 454 pupils to white schools (while preparing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court). In New York City, which recently began allowing Negroes to transfer to under-capacity schools anywhere in the city, 50 Negro parents threatened to "strike" on the ground that...