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...strange. The British have long claimed that the place was probably first sighted in 1592 by Captain John Davis, whose ship named Desire was driven off course by what he called "a sore storme" and found haven "among certaine isles never before discovered." Two years later, another Briton, Sir Richard Hawkins, proclaimed the islands "Hawkins' Maiden-land" in honor of Queen Elizabeth I and "in a perpetual memory of her chastitie." Some maintain, however, that Magellan's expedition first sighted the islands in 1520. Others speculate that the discoverer was an anonymous Viking, or even a roving Fijian or Chinese...
...Pilgrim and Puritan tradition of early New England churches, but its form is traditional only in that the white-trimmed gray clapboard and spire convey a sense of historic continuity. The architecture is closer to the modern simplicity of Mies van der Rohe than the baroque intricacy of Sir Christopher Wren...
...title role is taken by an animal thought to be extinct by the Zenkalis, an innocent and exploitable people. Their belief is shared by a young Briton, Peter Foxglove, sent to the island by his venal uncle, Sir Osbert, in order to pave the way for a military port and airstrip. But in classic anticolonial style, he crosses over to side with the natives. Peter's conversion is aided by a cast variegated in color and comedy: a king built on the order of a mahogany tree; his impudent adviser Hannibal, who addresses his majesty as Kingy; the irreverent...
...best-educated constituency in Scotland, a community that stretches from handsome, rosy sandstone houses on sloping streets to grubby shops near the River Clyde below. The Tories came in with an edge, possession of the seat for more than six decades, the past 33 years served rather lacklusterly by Sir Thomas Galbraith, who died last January. In his stead the Conservatives offered Gerald Malone, 31, a native Glaswegian, glib, vigorous and bluntly reactionary, who proposed using social welfare funds for buttressing law and order and called for the reinstatement of hanging. Labor's candidate was bearded portly Community Worker...
...help Conservative Candidate Malone, the Thatcher government tried some canny pocketbook appeal from London. New taxes on alcohol, announced Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe 16 days before the election, would fall more lightly on Scotch whisky than on wine. The government also issued a well-timed announcement that Glasgow's derelict Queen's Dock would be transformed into a $55 million industrial exhibition center...