Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When it comes to turning out great college and pro football players, few high schools can match the record of Dallas' Highland Park High-the school that produced Bobby Layne and Doak Walker...
This year Highland Park has a new star: a straw-haired 16-year-old who is practically a one-man ball club. Play ing quarterback on offense, he has completed 56% of his passes; on the ground, he has gained 705 yds. in 102 carries. He is his team's top scorer, with 83 points. On defense, he plays safety, has intercepted nine passes. He also punts (for an average of 33 yds.), kicks off, boots extra points and field goals. His performance against Turner High three weeks ago was typical. With Highland Park trailing...
Scots wha hae'd jubilantly with Highland flings late into the bleak November night. Outside the town hall of Hamilton, a Lowlands town of 47,341, the bagpipes skirled We Shall Overcome. Rallying the clans with a cry of "Put Scotland first!," a lawyer and mother of three, Mrs. Winifred Ewing, 38, had just done what everyone considered impossible. In a special by-election, she had won a seat long so safe for Labor that the party took it by a 16,576 majority the last time around. Reversing that margin to win by 1,799 votes, Mrs. Ewing...
...very human eye for detail-but with a scholarly difference. Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil, pleases him because it has escaped the "geometer"-the builder who lays out cities as grids. But it also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present-day life; religion is retreating...
...British soldiers are similarly hammed up. (The British are actually Scottish. I suppose this is so the kilts and Highland flings could make a troubling parallel with the costumes and pagentry of the lunatics. But the sterotoype is of a British Soldier.) The sputtering British commander stops everything...