Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reckoning is at hand, Lord Cromer told a gathering of Scottish bankers in Edinburgh. The $3 billion international rescue that saved the Brit ish pound last November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presaged swift victory in 1940." If the government is to prevent hardship for every British family, he said, it must quickly and decisively put its house in order by boosting productivity and cutting back on its spending schemes. Said he: "I only hope we face up to this need whilst there is still time...
...Scottish Student Jailed in Spain--An 18-year-old student from Scotland, Stuart Christie, was sentenced earlier this month to 20 years in jail by a military court in Spain for "terrorist activities" against the regime of Francisco Franco. The student, a self-proclaimed anarchist, was arrested while hitchhiking to Madrid with a knapsack full of plastic explosives. Christie's mother watched the trial, commented laconically: "I don't think it would be taken so seriously back home ... he is very young...
...great bells of St. Paul's pealed out as the coffin was returned to the gun carriage. Cannon again reverberated. Sixty salutes had already been fired; now came 30 more-one for every year of Churchill's life. Sixty Highland bagpipers from different Scottish regiments piped the coffin down to the wharf at the foot of Tower Hill where Beefeaters in full uniform stood guard. Against the backdrop of Tower Bridge the vast Pool of London lay as still as an inland lake. Across the river great cranes bowed low in touching, mechanical precision. To the piping...
...they are also selling more and more higher-quality, higher-profit items. Kresge's K-Marts now offer some 35,000 items, including such new additions as hi-fi sets and frozen string beans. Woolworth's stocks diamond rings at $99.95, electric organs at $79.95 and canned Scottish pheasant at $6.98, has become the nation's largest retailer of records (40 million last year) and paperback books (15 million). Already the world's largest restaurant chain (1,706 luncheonettes), it is also planning to serve liquor in some of its "Harvest House" restaurants outside the stores...
...open its 80th season, the Metropolitan Opera last week mounted a lavish new production of an old operatic warhorse, Lucia di Lammermoor. Designer Attilio Colonello created massive settings of gnarled, Sequoia-size trees and great Scottish castles. Costumes were dazzlingly extravagant. The male leads, swathed in layer upon layer of brocades, silks and laces, looked like overweight peacocks, but dashingly...