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Dundee, a dour, slum-ridden industrial city (pop. 182,900) on Scotland's east coast, is famed for its marmalade and maverick politics. It has sent only two Tory M.P.s to Westminster in 131 years, and in 1922 threw out Winston Churchill, then a Liberal, in favor of the only Prohibitionist ever to sit in Parliament. In 1959 the Labor Party only managed to hang onto Dundee by 714 votes, and so, in last week's by-election, the Tories had hopes that the impact of a new, Scottish Prime Minis ter might help to defeat Labor. Instead...
...maverick and always have been," says Jose Figueres of himself. "I am the product of a personal revolution against the Catholicism of my family...
...maverick yielded to his family's demand that he return home. With him Figueres carried many new ideas. "I wanted to be a pioneer, so I went to the country, set up a farm, and read by candlelight for seven years." "The Struggle Without End," as he called his plantation, quickly became a model of successful and enlightened management. Not without a trace of pride he explains, "We introduced advanced social measures long before social legislation demanded them...
Plain Wood Coffins. Under such skillful manipulation, how many grief-stricken families have the maverick fortitude to select a plain wood coffin and demand that the undertaker dispense with embalming? The answer for a growing number of them is the memorial or funeral society, which contracts with undertakers to provide members with dignified burials costing about $150. Both Authors Harmer and Mitford (whose attorney husband, Robert Treuhaft, helped organize one in San Francisco) provide a list of such societies; there are 90 in the U.S., with a membership of 35,000. The undertaking business tends to dismiss them as aggregations...
...criminals. Conservative Lyng's four-party coalition consists chiefly of farmers, merchants and industrialists, whose economic views are less statist than the Laborites'; but Lyng will hardly try to alter Norway's deeply ingrained welfare society-and certainly not its NATO policies. With the two maverick leftists still holding the balance of power, he knows that he will be lucky to survive until the next election...