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...real rannygazoo, as the English would say. While the rest of the field sturggled merely to save face, Americans Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson began the final round of play all even and proceeded to bandy birdies with impunity on the regal links of Turnberry on the Scottish seashore. In a compelling finish to golf's most venerable spectacle, Watson shot a five under par 65 to edge out Nicklaus by a stroke, who thus became a runner-up in the British Open for a record-breaking sixth time...
...turning point of the match came on the par five 500-yard 17th, known as Lang Whang, which is the Scottish vernacular for "long hit." Watson made the green in two strokes for a snug birdie to put him 11 under. Nicklaus trickled his chip to within five feet of the pin but his put for four was never on line as Watson bolted into the lead...
...turn of the century the waters by the Mull of Kintyre had percolated Turnberry into the rough image of a championship eighteen according to this ponderous recipe. Nature also provided Turnberry with its share of the enchanting beauty of the Scottish hinterlands. The winds that have beleaguered generations of golfers howl in from the mountains of Arran silhouetted across the sea while the fog enshrouded Ailsa Craig looms in the foreground...
This novel should surprise those who think that the only Scottish murder mystery is Macbeth. Set in contemporary Glasgow, it has not a bonny brae nor a twirling tartan to its name; but it offers an assortment of colorful underworld types who demonstrate that tough talk is not softened when it is spoken with a burr. Laidlaw is also the first police procedural by Scottish Author William McIlvanney, 41, who has written three earlier novels and a book of poems, none published in the U.S. Like the whiskies of his native land, Mcllvanney's debut here comes after appropriate...
With kilt-clad bagpipers wheezing Scotland the Brave in a cavernous hall filled with cheering, dancing and festive hugging, the scene might well have been a nationalist celebration in Edinburgh. But the hoopla last week was in Los Angeles, where Scottish-born Douglas Fraser, 60, assumed the presidency of the 1.4 million-member United Auto Workers at the union's triennial constitutional convention. First came an emotional farewell by retiring Leonard Woodcock, whom President Carter has named to head the U.S. liaison office in Peking. Then, after a brief, symbolic challenge by a black local union officer from Michigan...