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...falls in love with a dashing young businessman from Greece. He is a year older than she, and he shares her passion for medieval religious art. In 1975 he follows her to Staunton Hill, her family's ancestral home for more than a century: a replica of a Scottish castle set on thousands of acres of rolling plantation land in southern Virginia...
...have breeding grounds in the Orkneys, and they have been on Britain's protected species list since 1914. Lately, however, British fishermen have complained that the voracious mammals have been eating too much of the depleted whitefish and salmon stocks in North Atlantic waters. The government's Scottish Office, with headquarters in Edinburgh, agreed with the fishermen that the seal herd must be thinned out. It called on the Norwegians, armed with 7.62 mm Mauser rifles and 4-ft. pickax bludgeons known as hakapiks, to dispatch 900 mother seals and 1,700 fluffy white pups in the first...
Home is a comfortable estate briskly run by his Scottish stepmother and filled with attentive servants. Caged in darkness, the young master writhes between despair and bitterness, thinking that the best those around him can do involves simply "nursing him back to a state of health sufficient for him to be left to their all-en-folding embrace of fatuity...
...crucial parliamentary votes. That left Labor nine votes short of a majority-and, in the opinion of most analysts, with little choice but to go to the polls. Instead, Callaghan evidently patched together a working majority by bargaining for the 14 yeas and nays held by Welsh and Scottish Nationalists. These extra votes should enable Callaghan to survive a Tory test of confidence in November, when the Queen delivers her annual government-written speech to Parliament. It is virtually inconceivable that Callaghan would have decided to hold on without the Nationalists' promise of help...
...Current standings in the House: Labor, 305 seats; Conservatives, 284; Liberals, 13; Scottish Nationalists, 11; others...