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John Knox, Scotland's 16th century thunderer against popery, would have preached himself hoarse at the thought. On South Uist, North Uist and Benbecula (pop. some 5,000), an island group in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Protestants and Catholics have banded together with a single goal: to drive out the Sassenach...
Last month Britain's Royal Air Force told some 200 South Uist crofters that they would be evicted to make room for a rocket-testing range. With their thatched cottages and small, thin-soiled farms in danger, the South Uist crofters-80% Catholics, the rest Church of Scotland Protestants-marshaled behind one leader: Father John Morrison, a local crofter...
...Ministry showed no disposition to re-roost its rockets, 16 crofters flew to England to harass the aliens on TV. Last week Father Morrison began talking ominously of his "trump card," a scheme to have the entire flock of crofters emigrate to Canada. "It would cause a revolution in Scotland," he prophesied. Of his own role in the fight, Morrison says: "The tradition here is that the clergy are the leaders." He adds wryly: "I communicate with the bishop on other matters, but not on this one. Probably one of these days he'll telephone to excommunicate...
...designs twice-yearly collections derived from Paris motifs but aimed at the U.S. taste. There are Dior branches now in London and Caracas. He has installed a line of accessories, organized a perfume company, gone into hosiery, gloves and men's ties. He has designed cashmeres for Scotland's Hawick looms, bathing suits for Cole of California. In all, Dior enterprises in 24 countries gross $15 million a year. But the mainspring remains the painstaking, scrupulous design and construction of custom-made dresses in the headquarters on the Avenue Montaigne. Of the 12,000 dresses turned out each...
Kendrick's book is one of two new case studies of catastrophe; the second concerns the collapse of Scotland's famed Tay Bridge, more than 100 years after the Lisbon quake. The two books make a fascinating contrast in the changing moral fashions surrounding disaster...