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...subjects in Cocos. There, everybody knows everybody else, and all security arrangements necessary were adequately handled by two Malay dancers who gyrated gracefully before the royal party, sweeping the evil spirits from the path. Even this precaution was excessive, for under the benevolent tyranny of five generations of Scottish copra growers named Clunies-Ross, who own the Cocos and rule there under the eye of the British government as virtual kings, the Cocosians have achieved a state of social security that is virtually free of crime, disease and the other evil spirits that plague most...
...Edinburgh he took lodgings with two other Americans, and impressed them with his Spartan indifference to the deficiencies of Scottish heating, his zeal for theology, and his scrupulousness about accounting for every groat he spent from the trust fund in Philadelphia on which he was drawing...
...managed to find time for some mild social life in Edinburgh; at one party he met Elizabeth Bartholomew of the Scottish mapmaking Bartholomews, whom he married in 1931 when he went back to Edinburgh for his Ph.D. But relaxation, social or otherwise, is not one of Pit Van Dusen's talents. Once, when his friend Erdman Harris and another classmate with some extra cash planned to visit Rome for a splurge during a winter recess, 23-year-old Van Dusen heard about it and quickly revised the plans...
...nine weeks Fox cameramen toured Britain, shooting Technicolor background footage of the island's vistas and keeps-Caernarvon, Warwick, Braemar, Eilean Donan and Alnwick (which in the picture serves for Arthur's Camelot). The Scottish village of Dornie, used for a viking stronghold, was mostly rebuilt on the Fox lot for the big siege scene...
...father, the late Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, became a governor of the Central Provinces, and was knighted for his services before going home to become a master of Cambridge's Pembroke College. His uncle, a close friend of Nehru's father, became governor of Burma. His Scottish mother was related to the great liberal economist Adam Smith. The eldest of four children, young Rab left Attock at the age of eight for boarding schools in England's west country. There, and later at Marlborough, one of the top public schools, Rab acquired,an early self-reliance...