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...drama so intentionally full of ambiguities, unusual latitude is afforded a director. Although the historical events on which the work is based lay in the 11th century, Kahn has quite legitimately placed his characters in the time of James I. In choosing a tale from Scottish history, Shakespeare was paying tribute to King James, himself a Scotsman; and in giving such a major role to the supernatural, he was honoring not only a king deeply interested in witch-craft but one who had himself recently written a treatise entitled Daemonologie...
JACK Gwillim is a kindly, virtuous King Duncan; and it is a felicitous touch to have him embrace Macbeth before retiring to his final sleep. Kurt Garfield's bleeding Captain sounds more Jewish than Scottish, Theodore Sorel's Angus is poorly spoken too, and Richard Backus' Donalbain is weak. Jeanne Bartlett is adequate as the ill-fated Lady Macduff, and William Larsen's old Siward is a decided asset. Macduff's son (Glenn Zachar) is far too old; so is Fleance (Keith McDermott), who seems to be assisted in his escape by the mysterious Third Murderer engaged to kill...
...investor must usually put up a minimum of $1,500 to $2,000 to buy a "parcel" of raw new spirits that his broker has bought from a Scottish distiller. In return, he gets a receipt from a bonded warehouse in Scotland giving him title to the whisky and bills for storage and insurance costs. After waiting out a three-year aging period specified by British law, he tries to sell his whisky to blenders who run short, or to other investors...
...outspoken 46-year-old Scotsman who flew for the British Royal Navy in World War II, then spent 15 years as a commercial pilot before setting up Caledonian with five partners in 1961. Early on, Thomson established two major operating principles: he wanted the airline to be distinctly Scottish in character, so that it could emulate the success of other airlines with a distinct national identity; and he wanted a mix of chartered and scheduled services. In 1962 Caledonian became the first British airline to win a regular transatlantic charter license from the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board and, together with...
...pull in passengers for Caledonian's daily New York-London and five-day-a-week New York-Los Angeles flights by touting Caledonian's service (baggage handlers, the ads claim, take extra care with luggage, and stewardesses will sharpen pencils for the businessman doing work aloft) and Scottish image. Airplanes are named after Scottish counties and haggis is served to first-class passengers. "After all," Thomson says, "there are millions of people of Scottish descent in the United States...