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...SCOTLAND, Conn.--Flames from a 20-ft, tall burning cross licked the night sky above this small farming town Saturday, as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan held their first open rally in New England since the turn of the century amid angry counterprotests and heavy police security...
Detroit's auto leaders represent an American melting pot. General Motors Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy is of Irish descent; Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell has an English background; Chrysler Chairman Lee A. Iacocca's parents were Italian immigrants; and United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser was born in Scotland. Just as various as their backgrounds are their strongly argued views about the current state of their industry and its future...
Grouse darting on the wing and sizzling on the platter If you could throw a net over the Highlands in August," wrote English Commentator Horace Cox in 1872, "you could catch nine-tenths of the genius and glory of Great Britain." The reason for this grandiose concentration in Scotland is the wily, toothsome red grouse, Lagopus scoticus, which exists only in the wild state and only in the United Kingdom (particularly on the heathery moors of the north). The grouse season opens on the "Glorious Twelfth" of August and lasts until Dec. 10. For marksmen, or "guns," as well...
...exploit and so continue to discredit any efforts by President Abolhassan Banisadr, a relative moderate, to release the hostages. The militants also might be maneuvering to prevent an attempt by their clerical leaders to resolve the crisis. In London, where Iranians have demonstrated against the U.S. and been arrested, Scotland Yard also thinks that militants in Tehran might have been calling the shots...
...goldplated scroungers." The zealous antimonarchist explained his truce by marveling at the Queen Mother's ability to combine "a love of the countryside, a passion for horses and dogs, an enthusiasm for angling -and, so it is said, a wholesome taste for a wee dram of her native Scotland's national beverage-harmless pleasures which have never interfered with her sense of duty." More than that, those pleasures nourished the charm with which the Queen Mum humanized British royalty. "She came into the royal family from the outside," observes an old friend. "She brought a naturalness and spontaneity...