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...first everyone thought this must be an important affair because Jock Semple, king of organized distance running in this area, was on hand at the starting line. It was good to hear at the starting line. It was good to hear Semple cursing in his appealing Scottish accent...
Change in Attitude. Many doctors are protesting, some have become highly emotional about the matter, and a few are trying to sabotage the law. In Birmingham, England's second-largest city (pop. 1,200,000), Professor Hugh McLaren, a strong-willed Scottish Presbyterian, simply refuses to perform abortions except in case of "dire peril" to the woman's life. Since he is head of the NHS's Maternity Hospital there, he can decree what subordinates may or may not do-and they may not perform abortions. The effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham...
Never was a Hamlet less pigeon-livered; yet never was there one who was less "the glass of fashion and the mold of form." Williamson's Hamlet is a drop out from Wittenberg with a Scottish-bred accent that scatters aitches like dandruff and tortures vowels until they scream. Still, the so-familiar lines emerge with a rasping edgy immediacy...
...Politics of Experience is the attempt of Ronald Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist, "to document some forms of our contemporary violation of ourselves." The widespread interest the book has generated since it reached the American market in September suggest that Laing succeeds in his endeavor, that many have found in it clues to their alienation...
...chasing a new breed of bank robbers, mostly ex-soldiers like the Younger Brothers of Missouri, and pouncing on cheating streetcar conductors in the East-Pinkerton agents were operating out of offices in New York and Philadelphia. The revolutionary slum boy from Glasgow was able to build himself a Scottish estate in Onarga, Ill., complete with 85,000 imported trees, where he entertained the likes of General Grant and Commodore Vanderbilt. Yet as America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society. An outspoken admirer of vigilante tactics, he became...