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Mostly descendants of Scotch-Irish immigrants who settled in the Appalachians in the early 18th century, the migrants were long isolated by their mountain barriers from the mainstream of U.S. life. Settling down to a slow-paced, hand-to-mouth and inbred way of life, they became famed chiefly for moonshine, revenooers, family feuds and hillbilly music. They became the inspiration for Erskine Caldwell novels and such comic-strip caricatures as Snuffy Smith and Li'l Abner...
...every denizen of the U.S. Capitol knows, legislative history is sometimes made over a friendly bipartisan glass of bourbon or Scotch. The convivial sessions in Charlie Halleck's "Clinic" or Lyndon Johnson's princely rumpus room can be as important as any committee hearing or party caucus. Even House Speaker John McCormack, a teetotaler, has decided as a matter of legislative policy to continue the gently liquid "Board of Education" meetings held by Sam Rayburn and earlier Speakers...
Last week, staring into a Scotch and soda in a Frankfurt bar, an Army captain brooded: "This isn't Korea or Viet Nam, and it takes more than an effort of will to remain pure here for two years. And I wonder the same about my wife back home. You worry about home, her old boyfriend, the kids." Said an Air Force chaplain in England: "Morale is at rock bottom. We had an incident of a rendezvous in London between an officer and another man's wife. I thought somebody was going to get shot...
...forever polishing her English, syllabically going over new words again and again: "Edification, feasible, feeesible, sì? That will be feasible. Good." She has trouble with some names, like Kerrygront and Clargable, and she says Barbara Stan-wich as if it came between slices of bread. She orders "Scotch on the stones" because it still gets the laugh it got when she first made the mistake...
...Free Church's journal thundered: "Instead of waiting cap in hand for an invitation from the Pope, we should be storming that bastion of AntiChrist with positive truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ." The "if invited" clause that the Auld Kirk faction had demanded seemed likely to scotch the visit, since by Vatican protocol the Pope invites no one. But the Pope MODERATOR CRAIG AT ST. PETER'S Over the Wall...