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...longer and sleeker, knickers have given way to bellbottoms, balls are livelier and travel farther, hickory staffs on clubs have been replaced by stainless steel or expensive graphite (up to $2,000 per set). Those are the obvious changes in golf since the game was first played in Scotland some 500 years...
Taking some of the zest out of the maneuvering is the generally admitted fact that the Conservatives have no one clearly suited to be Prime Minister. Their electoral base, moreover, has markedly diminished over the past decade. In Scotland, for example, they are not even the second party, taking third place behind the Laborites and the Scottish Nationalists (see following story...
...scenario is a concoction of leftovers. The writing is generally barbaric. The characters are exactly the ones who usually appear on rosters for such trips: a cool demolition expert (Richard Harris), his good-humored sidekick (David Hemmings), a terse, harried Scotland Yard operative (the excellent Anthony Hopkins), and an unflappable ship's captain who keeps his turmoil to himself (Omar Sharif). It is usually clear in these hairbreadth holocaust excursions exactly how they are going to turn out. The object is to obscure the inevitable, an exercise that Lester performs with great skill...
...feisty Scottish Nationalists, meanwhile, picked up four more seats, for a total of eleven, and raised their share of the popular vote in Scotland to more than 30% (against 22% in February). The Scots have long been angry at the loss of their talented young to London and the concentration of the country's wealth in the south. Westminster will thus be under continuing pressure to give greater autonomy 'to the region. Other regional parties also fared well. The Ulster loyalists retained ten of Northern Ireland's twelve seats, including one taken by renegade Tory Enoch Powell...
Labour's short-term stake in these Scottish seats is large enough to justify his attitude. Along with Wales (where the nationalist party Plaid Cymru has made significant though much smaller inroads on Labour strength), Scotland is the key to any Labour victory. If it were not for its safe seats in Scotland and Wales, Labour would have lost every general election in Britain since...