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Died. James Robertson Justice, 70, doughty, spade-bearded Scottish actor; following a series of strokes; in King's Somborne, England. Gruff-voiced and massive (270 lbs.), Justice appeared in more than 40 films, among them Moby Dick, Les Misérables and The Guns of Navarone. He was best known as the irascible surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt in the British Doctor comedy series of the 1950s...
Meeting problems head-on has never been Harold Wilson's political style, but there were signs that the Labor government had developed a belated sense of urgency about Britain's prolonged crisis. At a meeting of the Scottish Labor Party in Glasgow, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey announced that leaders of the trade union movement, industry and government will soon begin meeting to work out a program aimed at cutting Britain's 30% inflation by half within the next twelve months. "The key to solving inflation is the level of wage settlements," said Healey-meaning that...
...their struggle for independence. A discovery of natural gas and oil in Kurdish territory seems a likely source of financing for the Kurds, but when they try to buy arms with the money officially paid for exploitation rights, the funds disappear into Europe's banking system. A Scottish paleontologist named MacGregor tries to help, and his investigation takes him to Paris at the time of the 1968 student rebellion. Textures are well observed: the roughness of Kurdish mountain men, the slithery politesse of European moneymen. There is a convincing smell of burnt insulation; it is clear that neither...
...classes for the hilarious charade cameo he performs as a law school professor trying to evoke some response out of his less than diligent students. But he should take it lightly. He is far and away the greatest comic in the show. John Enteman as a George C. Scottish Judge Hiram Chokum and Bill Wilkins as Professor A.J. Cashner trail Chayes but execute their songs clearly and only occasionally send their jokes ahead via Western-Union...
...usual kind of rockers' bash. On Sept. 23, 1974, after the Scottish group Average White Band's show at the Troubadour, Entrepreneur Ken Moss, 31, asked the lads back to his Hollywood Hills pad. Camp followers included Cher Bono. "We all sat around the coffee table and somebody started passing this vial of white powder," one guest told Rolling Stone later. "Everyone assumed it was coke." In fact, it was "China White" heroin...