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...benefits that German workers do, including wages that start at a legal minimum of 65? an hour. But one West German recruiting scheme hit a snag last week. Badly in need of trained labor for his Hamburg shipyards, German Tycoon Willy Schlieker wants to hire up to 500 Scottish shipyard workers who have been threatened with layoffs or slow business at home. But despite his willingness to import a British cook along with them, Schlieker has not been able to get even an advance party of 60 Scots. British newspapers and trade unions argue that Britain itself, except for isolated...
...exile or drowning. In the four years between 1542 and 1546, there were 58 executions and 76 banishments in a city of about 20,000. Yet to those with a taste for it, Geneva under Calvin seemed almost like an earthly outpost of the Kingdom of God. The famed Scottish reformer, John Knox, lived there for three years and called it "the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth since the days of the Apostles...
Starts Wednesday: Sir Alec Guiness's least interesting film to date, TUNES OF GLORY casts him as the rough-neck unlovable colonel of a Scottish regiment in H. M. forces soon to be replaced by a tight-laced Sandhurst man. The elements of drama, yes--but precious few compounds result. Daily from...
...streets of the little Pyrenees town. Veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gen-debein even managed to get his foot jammed between brake pedal and accelerator on his little Emeryson speedster, shot off the road at high speed and wound up in a hay bale. With that kind of competition, Scottish Farmer Jimmy Clark, 25, who had never won a big race before, had no trouble bringing his Formula One Lotus home in front. ¶Just in time to give the last of the Easter tourists a helping hand with their hotel bills, a couple of long shots came home...
...rail, five wild geese, a dozen tropical birds, a goat that jumped on the kitchen table, and a cow that strolled upstairs one day and almost gave birth on the landing. Otters, he proclaims in this lyric celebration of the beast he loved the best and of the wild Scottish coast they romped along together, are the greatest...