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Cousin Georgina has married her marquis, and Hudson the butler lets down his Scottish reserve long enough to marry Mrs. Bridges. It took him 27 years to pop the question or, as experienced in the lives of millions of U.S. onlookers, some 55 hours of television viewing. However measured, they were exactly what Hudson called them: "Stirring times...
Aside from the discrepancy in the duo's scores, there were also temperamental difference. Fitzgibbons claimed to be "psyched out" by the high scoring of "S." Fitzgibbons has an affinity for shooting "low numbers," subscribing to the philosophy of the Scottish prof of old who gritted his teeth and said: "I 'ate heights." The plight of "S" is just as pitiful, for he faced an unequal task in competing with Fitzgibbons. He was not "playing a proud game," as caddies are wont to say. Nor is Fitzgibbons always the most encouraging of playing partners. His own words attest...
...International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases (ILRAD), a team of scientists has managed to grow in the test tube the long, slender, infective form of the single-celled parasite Trypanosoma brucei. That feat-accomplished by Hiroyuki Hirumi, a Japanese-born American scientist, and John Doyle, a Scottish colleague-has been the aim of medical scientists for years. In the past, whenever researchers tried to culture the bug, it invariably reverted to a harmless form. Thus they were unable to learn much about the deadly parasite-to say nothing of devising weapons against...
...lord of the game. Hagen was already displaying the waggish bravura that made him a gallery idol when he showed up for his first Open in 1913 at Brookline, the Crimson's home course. The Haig wore a garrish bandana tied cowboy style, a striped silk shirt, a plaid Scottish cap, and his wide laced brogans with the tongue moddishly doubled back over the instep...
...government's legislative program in order to push such Liberal pet policies as devolution for Scotland and proportional balloting in the election of deputies to the European Assembly. With the votes of the 13 Liberal M.P.s, Callaghan's Laborites were able to defeat the opposition-Tories, Scottish and Welsh nationalists, some Ulster Unionists and a sprinkling of other minor parties-by a margin...