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...their round-trip tickets in London before devaluation were not allowed to embark for home before paying an additional 14.3% to cover the pound's loss; at week's end 70 airlines agreed to increase by some 17% the price of airline tickets bought with pounds. A Scottish football team, traveling in Naples on a tight budget that became even tighter with the advent of the minipound, also had to ante up the difference. Miss Peru, winner of the Miss World contest two weeks ago in London, found her ?2,500 prize suddenly 14.3% poorer. And several cities...
Died. Nancy Pigott Kefauver, 56, widow of Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A vivacious Scottish-born artist and dress designer, she traveled with her husband all through his 24-year political career, pumping thousands of hands as tirelessly as he, prompting Estes to call her "my secret weapon." After his death in 1963, she remained in Washington as art consultant to the State Department, decorating the walls of U.S. embassies around the world with American paintings...
...pictures looks like a Scottish meadow sprinkled with sleeping sheep. In another, more enlarged, the curious objects that looked at first like sheep actually seemed to resemble four tufts of cotton joined at a central point...
...everyone considered impossible. In a special by-election, she had won a seat long so safe for Labor that the party took it by a 16,576 majority the last time around. Reversing that margin to win by 1,799 votes, Mrs. Ewing became the first member of the Scottish National Party to go to Britain's Parliament since 1945. "Now it's home rule by 1970," she said, advocating independence for Scotland inside the Commonwealth and a seat in the United Nations betwixt Saudi Arabia and Senegal...
...British soldiers are similarly hammed up. (The British are actually Scottish. I suppose this is so the kilts and Highland flings could make a troubling parallel with the costumes and pagentry of the lunatics. But the sterotoype is of a British Soldier.) The sputtering British commander stops everything...