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Last week all of Britain wondered where Blake was: Scotland Yard staked out the abandoned R.A.F. airstrips around London, put a watch on the docks, kept a discreet eye on the Russian and East European embassies. Seven other spies were transferred to less porous prisons, and the Home Office appointed Lord Mountbatten to investigate the scandalous state of security in British jails, which have been losing inmates at the rate of ten a week. A more fascinating question concerned neither Blake's whereabouts nor his means of escape. Rather, it was a question of identity: Who and what...
Only hours after his speech, Wilson sent four ministers flying to Balmoral Castle in Scotland with an Order in Council for the Queen to approve. With that, a Labor Government that had been brought to power chiefly by working-class votes ended the most cherished right of the British worker: collective bargaining. The order changed Britain's present, voluntary wage-price freeze to a mandatory system with prison sentences and fines for anyone who dared pay higher wages, or mark up prices, without official consent. Wilson's aides made clear that even after the manda tory freeze expires...
...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). "A Birdseye Tour of Scotland," with Harry Reasoner from a whirlybird...
...music and drama festival in Scotland, tailored after the Salzburg Festival. He launched the Edinburgh Festival in 1947, and overnight it became one of the biggest and most successful arts pageants anywhere in the world. The master manager and logistician also became adept at dealing with the peculiar brand of hysteria that so often swirls within musicians' souls. Once an Italian orchestra threatened a walkout because there were no coat hangers in the dressing rooms. Bing merely explained that the Scots have this quaint old custom of hanging their coats on the backs of chairs. Accordingly, when...
...style gimmicks as "make money" matching coupons (top value: $280) to hold its commanding 45% of the market against Esso and Mobil. In tires, the home team (Dunlop) has about half of the market. Trying to catch up, Goodyear has announced plans to expand its plants in England and Scotland, and Firestone will build a second plant in Wales. Even now, says Firestone's British division chairman, William A. Adam, the company is working "at 110% of capacity...