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...section included a member of the Israeli government, as well as aspiring administrators from India, Japan, Madagascar, South Africa, Peru, Canada, England, Scotland, Switzerland, and France. In addition, we had three lawyers, a Peace Corps veteran, an ordained minister and a former Princeton football captain...
...famous Beatles?" a Scotland Yard inspector asks. "How long do you think you'll last...
...list of immigrants and their sons who helped to mold American art and industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri...
...plants over the next ten years. Land is also developing a film that will produce instant color transparencies, and negotiating with Tex Thornton's Litton Industries to enter jointly the office-copier business. Polaroid recently opened a film plant in The Netherlands, this fall will open another in Scotland; later this year, U.S. Time will begin producing Swingers in Scotland. One indicator of Polaroid's foreign potential is that in camera-heavy West Germany, despite higher prices than in the U.S., sales of its cameras this year have increased twentyfold...
...Party and longtime Member of Parliament (1935-50), a loud, irascible Scotsman who thrived on baiting other speakers, in 1947 caused an enraged Winston Churchill to yell "Shut up, Moscow," to which Gallacher retaliated "Voice of Wall Street," eventually lost his seat to a Laborite; of cancer; in Paisley, Scotland...