Word: lothian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from a seven-point deficit to a five-point advantage over the Tories. Callaghan is also 17 points ahead of Thatcher in personal popularity, a gain of six points in a single month. In a by-election last month in the marginal Scottish border district of Berwick and East Lothian, Labor managed to retain a seat that the Conservatives had strong hopes of winning...
...first, archaeologists thought that the find was related to a 6th century A.D. building, similar in structure, at nearby Doon Hill, in East Lothian. But radiocarbon dating of the wood at Balbridie Farm indicates that the timber was felled as long ago as 4000 B.C. The composition and style of pottery shards found in one of the pestholes are characteristic of that time. Thus the hall was apparently built at least 1,000 years before Stonehenge, and is several centuries older than a small timber hutch in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that has until now been regarded as the most...
...Terry Lothian...
These concessions may not be enough. With their newly discovered North Sea oil bonanza, a growing number of Scots feel that they will soon have the economic base to separate from England. Observes John P. Mackintosh, Scottish historian and Labor Party candidate from Berwick and East Lothian: "When you look at the performances of the government in London, what is there to be proud of? What are you left to cling to? We could hardly do worse...
Married. Red Skelton, 60, consummate TV clown whose alter egos include flap-footed Clem Kaddiddlehopper and threadbare Freddie the Freeloader; and Lothian Toland, 35, sportswoman whose father was cinematographer for Citizen Kane and Wuthering Heights; he for the third time, she for the first; in San Francisco...