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...encyclopedia includes such little-known ethnic groups as the Manx (immigrants from the Isle of Man) and the Wends, who migrated to Texas during the 19th century from what is now East Germany. Though the Wends are now dispersed, records of their migration survive in their language, known, naturally enough, as Wendish. The book's separate listing for Macedonians is expected to upset both Greeks and Bulgarians because historically Macedonia was part of both southern Bulgaria and northern Greece, and both nationalities view Macedonians as their own. The scholar who wrote the four-page listing on Macedonians asked...
...banned in Britain in 1968, Man's 1,000-year-old parliament, the Tynwald, has long been allowed to make its own internal laws. But after he was birched three strokes in 1972 for beating up a school prefect who had snitched on him, a 15-year-old Manx boy named Anthony Tyrer made an international case...
...European Court is expected to condemn the practice this spring, forcing Britain to outlaw birching on the isle. The Manx are not likely to submit meekly. A petition backing birching was signed by 31,000 of Man's 45,000 voters. Facing self-government claims from all sides, the British would do well to keep in mind that many islanders are descended from fiercely independent Viking marauders. Nearly 200 years ago, a Manx descendant named Fletcher Christian aboard the H.M.S. Bounty led the most famous of all mutinies...
Before taking up with a cat, Greer advises the prospective owner to find a pet whose personality matches his own. Siamese, for example, are friendly and fun-loving, even though they sometimes go around muttering to themselves. The Manx is timid, dependent, and doleful to the point of martyrdom-ideal for the man who wants to be a god to his cat. Persians (and all pedigreed long hairs are so named) have minds of their own, often forget early hygiene training. Their attitude is "Why bother?" The Burmese are wise, persuasive, and can freeze a fool owner in his tracks...
...Daystar also has a TV production contract with Fox, has an ambitious plan for pilot films. Daystar is also one of the financial angels for a personal management firm that Stevens expects will "bring many young people more rapidly toward the realization of their abilities." Star client: statuesque Kate Manx Stevens. There are deals in the works with Movie Mogul Joe Schenck, and there are plans for a publishing house, Daystar Press. First book: a hard-cover novel version of Marriage-Go-Round. Author: Leslie Stevens...