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...identity alive creates problems as newcomers buy, for outrageous amounts, the crumbling buildings that represent the last-century lives of the vanishing generation. Keeping tribal cultures alive is money-draining in today's world. Doesn't it all come down to cuisine, music, dance, costume and language? Gillian Muir Westray, Scotland The differences among diverse languages and cultures are fascinating, but they help maintain walls between peoples. For most of us, it's important to know our cultural identity, but at what expense do we try to keep it? If not for the constant change and development of cultures...
...trouble? Well, as a matter of fact, he was just about 6 ft. 6 and hard as bricks. Whether by the grace of God or the works of Henry Samson, Wee Geordie (Bill Travers) turned out to be the biggest and the brawest laddie from Ecclefechan to Papa Westray. He was a nice, gentle giant-or, depending on the point of view, a big dumb ox. He thought of nothing but his muscles, and as far as bonny Jean (Norah Gorsen) could tell, he would rather grab a bar bell than a girl...
Colonel Hobby's successor was 43-year-old Colonel Westray Battle Boyce, widow and onetime government worker, who started in the WACs two years ago, served as a supply sergeant, rose rapidly through the ranks to staff director of WACs in the North African theater and finally director on the Washington staff of Oveta Hobby...
Westroy Battle Boyce, onetime Government worker, was staff director in the Mediterranean theater before she was brought back to the job she now fills: a director on the general staff responsible for WAC training policies. Fragile and helpless looking, 43-year-old Westray Battle Boyce is known as one of the best administrators in the Corps...
...Scotland, reported a correspondent of the Christian Century, Moderator P. D. Thomson of the Church of Scotland has taken to visiting his flocks by airplane. Typical tour: from Inverness to Kirkwall to preach at a cathedral and two churches; thence to the islands of Ronaldshay, Westray, Sanday and Stronsay; back home in less than a week...
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