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...Douglas Smith, 46, is Rhodesia's first native-born Prime Minister. His father came to the land from Scotland in 1898, settled down to make his fortune as a gold miner, cattle farmer and butcher in the town of Selukwe, 180 miles southwest of Salisbury. "My father rubbed shoulders with Cecil Rhodes," Smith says proudly. "He was one of the fairest men I have ever met, and that is the way he brought me up. He always told me that we're entitled to our half of the country and the blacks are entitled to theirs...
Professor Forbes received final approval for the trip from President Pusey Monday morning and from President Bunting yesterday afternoon, Black said. The group tentatively plans to sing in Japan, Hong Kong, the Phillipines, Thailand, India, Turkey, and Scotland...
...year in Scotland, say friends, also buffed down Bill Meyers' Texas twang. After Edinburgh and a three-month, 12,000-mile tour of Western Europe, Moyers entered Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. However, long before he won his bachelor of divinity degree in 1959, he was beginning to worry that he and the church were mismatched. "I wanted to invest my talents in the broadest possible river," he says, "and I felt that journalism and public affairs were wider and faster flowing than the ministry." When he graduated, despite his conviction that the ministry...
...Melbourne, the "slushies" at Timbertop school scarcely paused in their chores when they got the official news: 16-year-old Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, will become one of Timbertop's "young old boys" in February. There had been rumors that the prince might transfer from Scotland's Gordonstoun School, and, while royalty is something special at "Australia's Eton," wealthy boys from throughout the world are commonplace there, and the slushies* are pretty blase about such things...
...from a climactic mad scene for which no Oscars will be won. Meanwhile, Martita Hunt as a dotty old schoolmistress, and Noel Coward, as a dotty old literary type strive to stop the show with their patented idiosyncrasies. To keep an eye on everyone, there is the man from Scotland Yard-dryly played by Sir Laurence Mivier, who seems bemused to find his king-sized talent tucked into so mundane a role. Obviously, Inspector Olivier has a clue that no sensible person ought to worry too much about missing Bunny...