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...missile that blasted out of the clear blue Gulf Stream carried the U.S. nuclear navy into new positions of power. By passing its 13th successive successful test, its first from under water, the Polaris A3, latest addition to the nation's undersea arsenal, promised that U.S. submarines would soon make their patrols with vast new freedom. The A3, with an additional 1,000 miles of range, reaches out for 2,500 miles. Subs that are now restricted to prowling narrow waters close to the coast of Europe in order to keep their Polaris warheads within 1,500-mile range...
...Holmes and White formed "an abiding friendship." In 1915, in Guinn v. U.S., the White court considered an Oklahoma amendment that discriminated against Negroes by requiring a literacy test of anyone whose ancestors had not been eligible to vote prior to 1866, the year after the slavery-prohibiting 13th Amendment went into effect. It was Chief Justice White who wrote the opinion declaring such "grandfather clauses" unconstitutional...
...news of the laird's new job stirred the greatest celebration since the 6th Lord became the 1st Earl in 1605. The clan once foregathered also at Douglas Castle, or "Castle Dangerous," as Sir Walter Scott called it, on their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when the 13th Earl discovered a coalmine beneath his living room, he tore down the 176-year-old castle to get at it. Their family seat today is The Hirsel, a 70-room, Queen Anne mansion at Coldstream, one of the few Scottish homes that are both stately and central-heated...
Scot of Scots. Coldstream has been home to the Homes for at least eight centuries, and they have always been powers in the land. Their rolling farm lands were bestowed on the family by Scotland's King William the Lion in the 13th century. Later, the Homes merged with the powerful Douglas clan and inherited their vast, 50,000-acre estates in the Douglas Valley, 80 miles west of Coldstream. For several centuries, the bold, battling lairds of Douglas and Home fought the English and rustled their cattle. The 4th Earl of Douglas was acclaimed by Falstaff in Henry...
...this, ironically, the new Tory Prime Minister can thank Labor M.P. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, whose gallant campaign to shed his father's viscountcy won the nation's support for the law. *Home is the 20th Old Etonian Prime Minister (of 45), and the 13th to have attended Christ Church...