Word: scots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stronghold of Labor strength. There, instead of losing to the Tories, Labor was beaten chiefly by the Scottish Nationalist Party, a party so weak a year ago that it amounted to little more than hope in the minds of its 60,000 members. Even last fall, when the Scot-Nats elected Mrs. Winifred Ewing, 38, a lawyer and mother of three, as their first member in Parliament since 1945 (TIME, Nov. 10), few considered them serious electoral contenders...
...them a majority in any city, but in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Stirling, they outpolled major parties to win the balance of political power. Those gains demonstrated that nationalism-the dominant political emotion these days in almost every country-has become something of an obsession in Scotland. Heady with victory, Scot-Nat leaders renewed their demand for independence after 261 years of union with England. Said Mrs. Ewing: "The Nationalist Party cannot now be stopped...
Cynics talked sourly of impending catastrophe. The expanded league, they insisted, was too big, financially shaky (think of all those extra travel bills), badly unbalanced in the quality of play. Stocked with castoffs, minor leaguers and even non-Canadians (four Americans, one Scot, one Pole), the new West Division teams in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Minnesota, Los Angeles and Oakland could hardly be expected to furnish much competition for the established East Division clubs. And when they were slaughtered by scores of say 15-0, who would come out to see them play? Auditoriums would empty, franchises would fold...
...Absence of O'Hara. There was a great deal that wanted altering in lona Station, Ont., the dour, Scot-dominated farming community in which Galbraith grew up. "It was a dreadfully barren existence up there," says his younger sister, Mrs. Catherine Denholm, now a resident of the pleasant town of Elora, Ont. "It was totally arid." William Galbraith, a schoolteacher turned farmer, was a 6-ft. 8-in. giant like his son, but unlike him in other respects. Shy and modest, he nonetheless became a leading light in the local branch of the Liberal Party...
...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED. Wole Soyinka, the foremost black African playwright, is being detained in a Nigerian jail, but his two one-acters have traveled well to Manhattan. Brother Jero, played with finesse by Harold Scot, is a delightful spoof of the self-declared prophets who hold ceremonies for their "customers" on the beach. The Strong Breed is more of a myth-play, delving into the realm of tribal taboos with the tale of a stranger who becomes a village's sacrificial scapegoat...