Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clark joined the Border Reivers, a Scottish auto-racing club-whose dark blue crash helmet he still wears today. From the start, recalls Fellow Border Reiver Ian Scott Wat son, "Jim drove so fast that most people were scared stiff to sit next to him." Among the 150-odd trophies lying around the 500-year-old farmhouse at Edington Mains is a block of black wood with three toy cars (a Porsche, a Triumph, a Jaguar) mounted on top, along with the inscription...
...Dutch Grand Prix. This frantic life has its little compensations. Fortune, for one: his income from racing this year will top $230,000, and Edington Mains is busily in the black too, producing barley for Scotch-whisky distillers, sheep for wool, and cattle for slaughter. He has his Scottish sheep dog, Sweep, who pines for him while he is away-and his flaxen-haired girl friend, Sally Stokes, who travels with him and tends a stop watch in the pits...
What Fleming's literary critics overlook is that in transferring Bond from fiction to film, and endowing him with all the attributes of Scottish-born Actor Sean Connery, a new twist has been added. Says Chief Scriptwriter Richard Maibaum in the current Esquire: "The common denominator is deadpan spoofing. We know it, the audience knows it, yet they are perfectly willing to alternately believe and disbelieve what is happening on the screen." To help illusion along, there are not only gadgets galore - Bond's tricked up Aston-Martin is now a main attraction...
...service," prompted him to enroll in Princeton Theological Seminary. Now the man called John Peter Marshall, 25, has been ordained into the Presbyterian ministry and appointed assistant pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Hartford, Conn. Mindful that his father's divine call came on a misty Scottish moor, young Marshall is humble about his own future. "In the ministry you go where God leads you," he says. "It's a real adventure...
Later, at a Scottish mission school, he discovered that they were often stupid and insensitive gods who beat black boys. He worked hard at algebra, read Booker T. Washington, pondered the life and works of Abraham Lincoln: "I saw the land of Lincoln as the place one went to get the freedom and independence one knew...