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...when Molotov was a veteran member of Russia's Politburo, McNeil was at Glasgow University, trying to make up his mind whether he was headed for the Scottish Presbyterian ministry or for politics. (In Scotland, up to a point, training for either is training for both.) His father, a shipwright, died that year, and his firm gave McNeil's mother a pension of ?26 a year ($125). "That," says McNeil, "was when I turned to Socialism...
Crusading Plan. Such famine hazards were exactly what was on the mind of Sir John Boyd Orr, banyan-browed Scottish nutritionist and food crusader. To the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), of which he is director general, he was about to submit a plan which would free farming from gambling, he hoped. FAO, now only an advisory body, should enter the operating field, create a central financial system for buying any nation's surplus crops; it would eventually control production, fix prices, do away with the up-&-down cycles...
...Largs, Scotland. Cadaverous, lank-haired Jimmy Maxton once enraged fellow Scots by saying: "I think porridge just one of the greatest swindles ever worked on an innocent and unsuspecting people. I do not think that it has any food value at all, and it is a characteristic of the Scottish people to tend to deify the things they must put up with...
Bobby Jones scornfully called it a cow pasture the first time he played it; the second time, when his score was better, he called it the greatest course in the world. St. Andrews golf course, perhaps the world's toughest, curls like a giant fishhook along the east Scottish coast, its fairways pocked by traps deep as bomb craters. Roads and railroads run in & around it, and on the famed 17th hole the players have to drive over an enormous coal shed. Last week, in the British Open golf championship, the local boys, who knew the course, the wind...
...rard, 65, professor of literature, transplanted Frenchman, prolific critic and author (Art for Art's Sake, Preface to World Literature, France, a Short History, some 14 other volumes); and Thomas Addis, 64, Scotland-born authority on Bright's disease and other kidney ailments, winner of the Scottish Cullen Prize "for the greatest benefit done to practical medicine in the past four years...