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Harold the 14th. At week's end Douglas-Home took off for the solidly Tory constituency in Scotland. Though he faces five opponents, he is certain of victory both as a Tory and a bra' bonny Scottish laird. The new Prime Minister also displayed a considerable knack for public relations, allowing his wife to tell women reporters all about his habits, including the way he takes his porridge-sitting down and with lots of sugar, unlike the traditional Scotsman, who eats it standing up and with salt. As for criticism of his "remoteness" from life, the millionaire Prime...
...Britain last week, there was probably only one community where Macmillan's choice of a successor was hailed with unmixed joy. To the 2,000-odd people of Coldstream, a Berwickshire border village flanked by 5,000 acres of Home's ancestral lands, the news of the laird's new job stirred the greatest celebration since the 6th Lord became the 1st Earl in 1605. The clan once foregathered also at Douglas Castle, or "Castle Dangerous," as Sir Walter Scott called it, on their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when the 13th Earl discovered a coalmine beneath...
...earls of Home were imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for political crimes. Three others were beheaded. One mer ry laird of Home, says the 14th Earl, used to invite his neighbors to dinner and, "having wined them and dined them until they were under the table, would then proceed to acquire their property. Then he would hang them by the neck to a tree outside the bedroom window to remind himself of, as he used to say, 'the danger of overindulgence.' " Home adds: "The English always say that we Scots retarded the advance of civilization. If we had known...
...been trapped. Sensing a strong public reaction against the Administration's deficit-spending policies, they have made economy the foremost issue of the 1963 legislative session. They could, therefore, hardly support the public works appropriation in all its freespending glory. Explained Wisconsin's Republican Representative Melvin Laird after the floor vote: "Sure it was a tough one, perhaps the toughest we could have picked. But if we'd run from this one, I don't see how we could continue to claim that we really believe in economy...
...When he testified last week before a House subcommittee, two Republican Congressmen made side bets on whether McNamara could be asked something he couldn't answer. Melvin R. Laird of Wisconsin owes William Minshall of Ohio a lunch because McNamara precisely pinpointed a section of the Nassau Pact that Laird thought he might not know...