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Eric Linklater, in whose latest novel these uncommon scenes appear, explains with grinning relish. A Scotsman to the brisket, Linklater believes that English M.P.s have treated his native land so stingily that it is time they got a comeuppance. A onetime chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, Linklater also knows his classical drama and how to make it a vehicle for his grouch. Laxdale Hall is a modern variation on Euripides' Bacchanals, in which sobersided King Pentheus is first treed, then torn apart by furious women because he has forbidden them to join in the orgies of the wine...
...Third Day. News of Connie came to the Charltons intermittently. He served as an enlisted clerk at Aberdeen Proving Ground. He was transferred to Okinawa. Last year, when he was 21, he wrote proudly that he was with the 25th Infantry Division in Korea-and a sergeant. He had raised a mustache "befitting his position." Then the Charltons got word that Connie had been killed...
ORDVAC was considered to have passed the final exam. It will soon be moved to the Army's ballistics research laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, where formidable problems on guns, guided missiles, etc. are awaiting attention. In two weeks of work, ORDVAC's creators estimate, it can solve a problem that would take a human equipped with a standard desk calculator more than 1,000 years...
...crosswind whipped the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) Proving Ground as two riflemen stepped up to the firing line. The marksmen took aim, squeezed off a few single shots, then flipped the rate-of-fire levers on their rifles and sprayed out a rippling burst of full automatic fire at the target. The riflemen were two of the country's top small-arms experts: Major General Julian S. Hatcher, U.S.A., ret., and retired Marine Major General Merritt A. Edson. They were at Aberdeen to try out the Army's secret, new, lightweight .30-cal. automatic rifle...
...summer of 1949, on a guest preaching tour of the U.S., he gave a series of sermons at the old New York Avenue Church. When the congregation sent a delegation to him in Aberdeen to call him to Washington, Docherty reports, they convinced him with the argument "that this strategic pulpit was where a Scotsman might make an abiding witness, not only for the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but toward a greater understanding between our two great nations...