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...middle-aged London accountant named Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) buys an otter to keep it from becoming a captive circus performer. Given his freedom, the animal returns the favor by wrecking Merrill's city flat and showing him that happiness is a cottage in Scotland. Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation. Even in children's films, a man cannot drift for long before a pair of pretty eyes begin blinking like a lighthouse. Here they belong to Virginia Mc-Kenna-Mrs. Travers in real life...
...based on a reading of the religious, psychological and historic conditions existing at the time. Like other historians, he points out that the Salem trials were anything but unique. In the 17th century people not only still believed in witchcraft but passionately persecuted witches. There were witch burnings in Scotland and hangings in England, and on the Continent incomplete records tell of the burning of 5,000 witches in the province of Alsace alone. The learned believed in witchcraft as strongly as the ignorant; Hansen notes that the British chemist Robert Boyle, who discovered the law of gas pressures that...
...Parisian cardinals despite recent rumors that he had turned down the red hat. In Africa, where the Pope will visit next July, there was now a third black cardinal-Archbishop Joseph Malula of Kinshasa, the Congo-as well as Jerome Rakotomalala in the nearby island republic of Malagasy. Presbyterian Scotland got its first resident cardinal in four centuries, Archbishop Gordon Gray of St. Andrews and Edinburgh. And Western Canada was given its first cardinal ever-popular, liberal George Bernard Flahiff, 63, Bishop of Winnipeg...
...ship appeared. A herd of goats was supposedly assigned to clog the airstrip, and there was desultory talk of using sharp rocks to block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them. Most Anguillians were just waking up. Not a shot was fired in anger...
...interview with The Director, a London business magazine. On his countrymen's work habits: "The number of people who are actively constructive are minimal compared to the numbers who are just sitting there." On governmental controls: "People will soon need a license to breathe. I know that in Scotland we had to get permission to block up a fireplace in a cottage. It's unbelievable...