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...very names evoke the lore and challenge of a classic individual sport: the Dee, the Tay, the Tweed. These famous fishing rivers of Scotland attract some 50,000 anglers a year, most of them lured by hopes of hooking the combative, and tasty, Atlantic salmon...
...this year fishermen are returning home from Scotland with little more than tales of the big ones they never saw, let alone those that got away. London's Daily Telegraph describes the salmon season, which began in January and continues until November, as "possibly the worst on record." Says a seasoned Scottish fishing guide: "Ye'll have observed that when Charles wants to give his Princess casting lessons he takes her doon to the Dee. But when he wants to catch fish, he makes awa' for Iceland." In fact, the Prince of Wales did better than most...
...Street Magistrates' Court last week. Michael Fagan, 33, the unemployed laborer who had stunned Britain by wandering into Queen Elizabeth's bedroom three weeks ago, was brought into court for a bizarre 17-min. bail hearing. (Bail was denied.) At the same time, a Scotland Yard investigation of the affair revealed just how somnolent the Queen's protection had been during Fagan's peregrination through Buckingham Palace...
Pagan's suicidal bent, according to Scotland Yard, was what led him to appear at the Queen's bedside with a piece of broken ashtray in hand, dripping blood on the bedclothes from a cut thumb. Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner John Dellow, who carried out the investigation, reported that Pagan's movements had been more extensive than earlier accounts had indicated. Fagan got inside, Dellow said, by climbing a railing near the gates to the Ambassadors' entrance at 6:45 a.m. He was spotted by a policeman, but in the first breakdown of communications, the police...
...Watson plays a game of golf with which Jack Nicklaus-and no one else-is familiar. These two can look at each other now and see where they are going and where they have been. In the 1977 British Open at Turnberry, Scotland, Nicklaus and Watson crossed a dark moor together and came out Watson and Nicklaus. To Jack's 68, 70, 65 and 66, Tom shot 68, 70, 65 and 65, erasing any doubts about whether his Masters victory that year was a fluke, and taking over as the best golfer in the world. Watson has been...