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...FIRST WORDS ever written about golf appear in an edict issued by the Scottish King James II, who was affectionately nicknamed "fiery face" by his subjects. This decree, passed by the Scottish Parliament in 1457, outlawed the playing of golf with the stern invocation that "the futeball and golfe be utterly cryed downe and not to be used." James was increasingly alarmed by the golf mania sweeping his realm, which was distracting able-bodied men from the archery practice required during wartime. "Fiery face" later met an untimely and befitting death when he was killed by a cannon that blew...
...month ago, opposition leaders thought they had a good chance of reducing the ruling Congress Party's strength in Parliament to less than the two-thirds necessary to amend India's constitution-just in case Mrs. Gandhi might decide to push through an amendment, as she did last year, to increase her powers. Given her standing as a national figure and the entrenched position of the Congress Party, the odds are that she will slip through with a narrow victory. But opposition leaders now believe, with reason, that they just might be able to defeat the Congress Party...
...chose a dark horse: Dr. David Owen, 38, an ambitious, handsome neurologist-turned-politician who has been Crosland's deputy for the past eleven months. Born in Devon to a physician father, Owen developed his socialist convictions while working in National Health Service hospitals, and first won a Parliament seat from Plymouth in 1966. Britain's youngest Foreign Secretary since Anthony Eden was named to the post in 1935, Owen got the job partly by default: Healey apparently felt that the demanding Exchequer post, during Britain's financial crisis, is a better steppingstone to No. 10 Downing...
...getting no aid from the state beyond a $26-a-week old-age pension, the response was outrage. Declared the Daily Mail: "When Marlborough, Churchill's illustrious ancestor, beat off England's enemies, the nation gave him Blenheim Palace. Is it too much to ask that Parliament, by speedy and special resolution, now grant a modest pension to Sir Winston's widow? That at least would be an act of belated grace...
...passing idea belonged to Peter Lorenz, 54, president of the West Berlin parliament. After reading of U.S. storm ravages, he appealed to Berliners to help those who had helped them, and set up an account with the German Red Cross to receive contributions. Thousands responded. Within eight days, $208,333 was collected from those who remembered. Said a 31-year-old engineer: "It is our way of saying 'Thank you' for what you have done for us." Germany's most famous boxer, former Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, now 71, donated $400. A war widow of 75 added...