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...thank-you notes, answer the telephone and pay for anything Her Majesty might fancy (the Queen never carries money -too unseemly); her private secretary, Sir Philip Moore, who supervises the handling of the Queen's "boxes," which contain state pa pers waiting for the royal cipher; and two Scotland Yard detectives. As for security, ever since the matutinal intruder in her chamber last summer, she sleeps with a small alarm next to her bed connected to the room of an alert royal page...
...made a terrible mistake!" after which a voice asked, "Who is it, Susie? Who have we shot?" As it turned out, the victim was not Martin, but another friend of Stephens', a television film editor named Stephen Waldorf. Calling the incident "a tragic case of mistaken identity," Scotland Yard suspended three detectives involved and launched an investigation...
While Britain's violent crime is low by U.S. standards and most police officers remain traditionally unarmed, the number of incidents involving firearms has risen substantially over the past twelve years. Scotland Yard began issuing firearms on a regular basis to officers concerned with terrorism or other particularly dangerous cases in 1972; since 1980 their guns have been drawn approximately 300 times, with 52 shots fired in twelve incidents. Meanwhile, the number of firearms issued to police officers each year has grown to more than 6,000, a sevenfold increase over the past ten years. Guidelines governing police firearms...
...vigor of the black churches, there is still a role in Africa for traditional missionaries with skills and tact. One is Alfred Merriweather, 63, a physician sent in 1944 by the United Free Church of Scotland to run the Livingstone Mission at Molepolole, Botswana; the center is named for David Livingstone, the famed 19th century Scottish missionary and explorer. Merriweather has seen massive changes over four decades. "On reflection, we made many mistakes. When I joined the mission service, my immediate senior banned traditional tribal dancing as being heathen. Today no one would dream of denying the local people their...
There was once a woman in the mountains of Scotland who was surreptitiously cooking a goose for Christmas Day, a paganistic transgression, when she was visited by the town's Presbyterian minister. Fearing for her reputation, the woman quickly hid the sizzling goose under her bed. Within minutes, the blankets caught fire and revealed her wicked ways...