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Died. Robert Cruickshank, 80, plucky Scottish-born Hall of Fame golfer and gallery favorite; in Delray Beach, Fla. Winner of 20 PGA tournaments from 1921-50, the "Wee Scot" played with an ebullience that once moved him to doff his cap, throw his club in the air and shout, "Thank you, God!" after a crucial shot bounced out of a brook and onto the green. The club, naturally, landed on his head...
Magnetic Puzzle. At the very least, proof of the existence of the monopole would solve a mystery that has baffled scientists for more than a century. The elegant equations that Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell worked out in 1865 described in detail the symmetrical relationship between electricity and magnetism. They accounted, for example, for the magnetic field formed by every electric current, and they predicted the electric currents that can be generated by moving magnetic fields. But they could not solve one puzzle. Complete symmetry between electricity and magnetism meant that there must be a monopole-a basic magnetic particle...
...birthday this week of Britain's Queen Mother, who endures as her country's beloved matriarch. Though she declined to appear for any television interviews, she willingly posed for an official birthday photo, and her royal family planned a black-tie dinner at Buckingham Palace complete with Scottish pipers, a three-tiered birthday cake and, rumor had it, some spoof gifts from Grandson Prince Charles. As one admirer explained, the "Queen Mum" has always enjoyed a good "legpull...
Like the American nation, the economic system known as capitalism is nearing a bicentennial: the 200th anniversary of the publication, in 1776, of the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith's classic work, The Wealth of Nations. In its 1,097 pages, the world found the first full description of a free economy?one in which, Smith prophesied, the drives of millions of people for personal profit, colliding against each other in an unfettered market, would produce "universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people." His book rapidly became a capitalist declaration of independence from the remaining shackles...
Though Smith was a quiet scholar, he was scarcely bloodless. He comes fully alive in his writings as a skeptical observer of human nature, a staunch advocate of political as well as economic liberty, and now and then something of a deadpan Scottish wit. Much of The Wealth of Nations is unreadable today, but the browser comes across unexpected bits of phrasemaking-for example, the first description of England as "a nation of shopkeepers." It was no compliment; Smith complained that only such a nation could follow so mean-spirited a policy as Britain's colonial exploitation...