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...half dozen other possible carps--pointed out by Scottish purists--should be duly noted. First, the accents are botched. Natives of the Western Isles speak without a burr (or in Gaelic), and it is said that the purest English in the world can be heard in Inverness, capital of the highlands. Yet the Bonnie Prince Charlie characters sound like a flock of Glasgow longshoremen...
...Scottish-born Robert Watson-Watt was once a meteorologist in Britain's weather bureau. His interest at the time was thunderstorms, and he worked out a radio device to track their movements at great distances. Little by little, he learned how to track other things in the air besides thunderstorms...
...purebred Scottish form, the game is played on a 46-yd. strip of ice, usually on an indoor rink where the ice is more even and not subject to sudden thaws. At each end of the rink there are fixed bull's-eye targets (see diagram). Each player on a four-man team, captained by an authoritarian "skip," gets two shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull...
Canny Strategy. At the Crossmyloof rink at Glasgow last week, none of the five Scottish teams scored such a shutout, but they did manage to whip the Americans in the first test match, 109-54. In the second match, the U.S. did better, only lost 94-83. The Scotsmen played a camay, conservative game, in sharp contrast to the generally slam-bang U.S. style. The Scots used blockade tactics in front of the scoring circle until the skip, comparable to cleanup batter in baseball, could send his final stone down to nudge his teammates' into the bull...
...shall have the honor, sir, to meet you with drawn claymore, sir, behind the auld kirk at dawn. To paraphrase the Scottish national motto, Nemo me impune lactessit...