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...help Conservative Candidate Malone, the Thatcher government tried some canny pocketbook appeal from London. New taxes on alcohol, announced Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe 16 days before the election, would fall more lightly on Scotch whisky than on wine. The government also issued a well-timed announcement that Glasgow's derelict Queen's Dock would be transformed into a $55 million industrial exhibition center...
...next life. A canary, she said wistfully. Roosevelt couldn't resist laughter. "I love it, I love it, I love it," he said. One of his most celebrated bits of clowning was his mock-solemn response to a Republican charge that he had accidentally left his Scotch terrier Fala behind on a trip to Alaska and then sent a destroyer to retrieve it. "Of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them," Roosevelt told a guffawing campaign audience. "You know, Fala is Scotch and . . . his Scotch soul...
...launchers-versus-warheads stall offense, arguing that parity already exists and that Washington is the culprit behind continuing NATO-Warsaw Pact tension. Grandstand experts will keep track of SS-20s and Pershing 2s: Time magazine will run charts showing cartoon missilemen arm wrestling or playing hop-scotch--one wearing Uncle Sam's top hat, the other a Cossack's headgear...
...morale, salved his ego, washed his underpants, suffered his diatribes and basked in the reflected glory of his occasional triumphs upon the stage. Norman is nimble-witted, mocking, tartly observant, yet given to foggily elusive reminiscence. His most trusted friend seems to be the half-bottle of Scotch in his back pocket. Norman is a homosexual, but his love for Sir is protective, albeit possessive, and achingly platonic...
...many different pasts. Reaching as far back as the walled-in ghettoes of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages and as far away as the countryside of feudal Japan, the history of ethnic America unfolds not only on the American landscape, but on all the continents of the world. Scotch-Irish pioneers settled the mountainous regions of Appalachia, while freed Black slaves migrated to the cities of the Northeast. Turn-of-the-century immigrants turned New York into the largest Jewish metropolis that culture has ever known; Japanese farmers transformed the valleys of California into the most prolific fruit-producing...