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...smorgasbord of stereotypes completed the regular line-up. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), the very Scottish chief engineer, spent his time keeping the warp engines, deflector shields and other technological marvels of the ship in working order. On the bridge, Uhura (Michelle Nichols), the Swahili communications officer, handled the subspace radio, pushed buttons and uttered memorable lines like "There's no response, sir" and "I'm afraid, Captain...
...supervised are the intelligence agencies by high-level government ministers. Pointing up the issue of class, Labor M.P.s charged that the soft treatment accorded Blunt was evidence that Britain's "old boy" network was ever ready to protect one of its own from public wrath (see ESSAY). As Scottish M.P. William Hamilton angrily put it, the upper-class establishment had been so determined to protect its members that it had allowed "an ex-public school boy, a homosexual and a traitor for 20 years" to operate within the gates of the palace. "I have never felt so sick, angry...
...Earl of Home (pronounced Hume), 76, who as Sir Alec Douglas-Home was Britain's Prime Minister in 1963-64, is also an author. In Border Reflections, he recounts his private life as Lord Home of the Hirsel, the gray stone 70-room Home "hoose" on the English-Scottish border, surrounded by 3,000 acres of grouse moors and prime fishing spots along a stream called Leet Water. Angular Angler Home, who has tried "every known lure from the maggot to the dryest of flies," also dotes on lore. His technique for harvesting worms, a favorite bait: "Take...
...sold out until 1982. After the legendary James Bond, the British company's most famous customer is probably Prince Charles, who tools around London in a 1970 Volante convertible, now worth $78,000. Like all Aston Martins, the car is upholstered with the hides of eight Scottish cattle. West Germany's sleek Porsche 928, priced at $33,220 and voted 1978 Car of the Year by European auto writers, is bought mainly by dentists (the country's highest income group), business advisers, doctors, tax consultants and real estate dealers. (The world's largest Porsche fleet...
Anti-Catholicism came over on the Mayflower. It was part of the doctrinal baggage that the founding Protestants - whether separatist Puritan, Scottish Presbyterian or Cavalier Anglican - brought with them. Almost every colony harassed "papists," and some excluded Catholics entirely; priests were liable to arrest in Massachusetts. The Dudleian Lectures were established at Harvard in the early 18th century partly to expose, as their founder said, "the Church of Rome as that mystical Babylon, that woman of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament." In New York in 1741, two Catholics were executed, one for being a "professed...