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Died. Niall Diarmid Campbell, 77, tenth Duke of Argyll, hereditary chief (Mac Cailean Mhor, a rank created in 1286) of famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Marquis of Lome and Kintyre) regarded the modern world as a personal outrage, once threatened to toss bureaucratic "snoopers" into his dungeons...
...bartender and tavern keeper is a hard one. Local foam pumpers, already harried by a slew of new restrictions, explain that there just isn't any percentage in a five cent brew as far as they are concerned...
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...Tribune, for example, claimed that a Canadian communist "was given a job with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which was headed by Archibald MacLeish, before Julian Huxley, former London zoo keeper, took it over...
Furthermore, said Mayer, "If Julian Huxley, Secretary of the London Zoological Society (1935-42), is a former London zoo-keeper, then Colonel R.R. McCormick, President of the Chicago Sanitary District (1905-10), is a former Chicago sewage disposer...