Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harold the 14th. At week's end Douglas-Home took off for the solidly Tory constituency in Scotland. Though he faces five opponents, he is certain of victory both as a Tory and a bra' bonny Scottish laird. The new Prime Minister also displayed a considerable knack for public relations, allowing his wife to tell women reporters all about his habits, including the way he takes his porridge-sitting down and with lots of sugar, unlike the traditional Scotsman, who eats it standing up and with salt. As for criticism of his "remoteness" from life, the millionaire Prime...
...their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when the 13th Earl discovered a coalmine beneath his living room, he tore down the 176-year-old castle to get at it. Their family seat today is The Hirsel, a 70-room, Queen Anne mansion at Coldstream, one of the few Scottish homes that are both stately and central-heated...
...titles for life if he wishes.* The 14th Earl of Home will soon be legally and for the rest of his life Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home. His next move will be to run for Parliament from a safe Tory seat. However, he is eager to represent a Scottish constituency, and since no suitable seat will be vacant in the immediate future, he may have to hold on to his title temporarily and sit in the Other Place until the right Scottish by-election comes along. To avoid this impractical arrangement, Tories hoped to postpone Parliament's recall next...
...local tribesmen have long avoided fog-shrouded Mount Nimba in Western Liberia as a spot inhabited by duwa -the sinister "little people" who have old men's faces and feet that turn backward. But Scottish Geologist Sandy Clark, a more prosaic fellow, found no such world of spirits when he scaled Nimba eight years ago. He found something almost as extraordinary: "a world of iron ore"-one of the largest reserves of high-grade ore (at least 260 million tons) ever discovered...
...through Van Every's pages. Joseph Brant was a sophisticated Mohawk chieftain, who was born in a wigwam but was equally at home in London society. He was perhaps the only Indian leader who fully understood the fatal consequences of Indian disunity. Alexander McGillivray, the son of a Scottish trader and an Indian beauty, became paramount leader of the Creek nation and a diplomatist of genius, who maintained his people's independence long after the other tribes had surrendered...