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...Canadian identity, says Johnson, is not nearly so frail as the nationalists think it is. "If it were true that economic integration leads to a loss of identity, how could one explain the survival of minority and regional groups such as the Scottish and Welsh in England?" Rather than hasten U.S.-Canadian union, argues Johnson, an even closer economic integration of the two countries would only improve Canadian living standards, and thus give Canada the means to follow its own political and social course...
...somewhat priggish and admits that "sex was never my strong subject." The other man is a brilliant scientist who is also a cad and a workmanlike seducer. These characters might result in a story as obvious and predictable as any triangle, but with a special kind of emotional geometry, Scottish Author James Kennaway has arrived at a taut, arresting and convincing novel...
...cloth as turned out at the 800-year-old Canterbury Cathedral to honor the new Primate of All England. More than 1,000 prelates walked in a mile-long procession to the clamor of bells, their many-colored robes billowing in the summer breeze. There were Anglican bishops, Scottish and Free churchmen, European Lutherans, and Old Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among the bearded divines from the East were the Orthodox Archbishop of Thyateira in a brocade cape of gold and scarlet, the Metropolitan of Carthage, and the Most...
Tight Controls. Zenith is led by Scottish-born Chairman Hugh Robertson, a vigorous 74-year-old who prides himself on the fact that Zenith is not one cent in debt. Day-to-day management of the company is left to lanky Montanan Joseph Wright, 50, who joined Zenith as a lawyer in 1953, became president three years ago. Since Zenith's headquarters and production facilities are all centered in Chicago. Wright and a platoon of bright, aggressive vice presidents are able to keep a close personal watch on every phase of the company's operations. "With each...
...await Jardines in the emergent nations of Southeast Asia. And most old Asia hands, convinced that a prime motive for last week's stock sale was to raise expansion capital, back Barton's judgment of Jardines' future. Says one: "Jardines always was, and still is, a Scottish house that kept the Sabbath and everything else it could lay hands...