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...Black Watch (so called from its somber Scottish tartan and original duties as a Highland guard) was first organized as a regiment in 1739. Families of three counties (Perth, Angus, Fife) supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want...
...when all Scotsmen had to suffer under the English imputation that they were hopeless provincial boors, Boswell was torn between his loyalty to his fellow Scots and his own social aspirations. At a theater once, he leaped to the defense of two Highland officers who had been pelted with apples from the gallery and greeted with cries of "No Scots! No Scots!" Boswell was so aroused that he jumped up and roared back at the galleryites: "Damn you, you rascals!" But only three months later, he wrote in his journal: "Summer will come when all Scots will be gone. Then...
...councilmen. The Chicago Tribune discovered a lady sewing on a U.N. flag, and the anti-U.N. fervor swept Tribune-land. Illinois V.F.W. and American Legion posts passed resolutions. The Aurora city council banned the U.N. flag from public buildings because "Russian Communists remain in the United Nations." In Highland Park, the local D.A.R. insisted that the U.N. flag come down. It did. The Parent-Teacher Association insisted it go back up. Town officials asked the Army at Fort Sheridan for guidance, who asked Fifth Army headquarters in Chicago, who asked the Pentagon...
Said white-haired Tom Johnston, who lobbied loud & long for the electrification of the Highlands, is now chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (which has eleven schemes like Loch Sloy under construction, 15 ready to begin and eight under survey): "Up to now our Highland people have been moving in that direction-south. Our firm intention is to reverse that direction...
...Highland Park...