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Flat earth policy hits council garden

... Flat earth policy hits council garden Everything in Bert Nicholson’s garden was lovely — until he received a letter from the local council. It warned him: “Don’t cultivate your garden — we will do it for you.” Mr Nicholson (28), a,weaver, of Cumbrae Place ...

Published: Monday 22 June 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 182 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

The numbers game

... tumour on the brain. When a newspaper trumpets that its latest opinion poll shows a 2 per cent swing from Liberals to the Flat Earth ...

Published: Saturday 05 July 1975
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 135 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

i Liberals told to expel young ‘lunatics’

... “Some time ago I said that long before ug one need be driven out of the Liberal Party he would fall off the edge of his own flat earth. Some Young Liberals have clearly gone over the edge and those of us wh9 persist in believing that the world is round must ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... of misplaced ‘commas in the gumn. shortness of breath _one nml case of fainting when some of my longer sentences ‘and a flat earth society offering me special rates for Christmas cards and. calendars for the festive season. - W 2 yourly Tetics from hat ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 800 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

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... flashes of appointment times. Variety There are diaries'for yachtsmen, agricultural workers, drainage system inspectors, flat earth believers, and for all I know ritual stranglers, wildcat strikers, Young Liberals, old Bolshewviks, Seventh Day Adventists ...

Published: Tuesday 22 December 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 987 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

times

... former pupil reunions, the gastronomical gatherings of clubs, professional and trade associations; guilds, masonic lodges, flat earth believers, not to mention the sudden gastric shock of the Burns Supper, coming as it does right in the thick of the annual ...

Published: Tuesday 10 November 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1107 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Higher learning -~

... childhood — So -there! It appear: that such break-up is the Ultimate Evil, to be avoided with no reasons given. Thus did the Flat- Earth believers argue — go that way and you'll fall off the edge of the world. Two important facts must be borne in mind. The ...

Published: Wednesday 11 February 1976
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1228 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Bonnets for all seasons

... Yet it happens every day — every market day anyway — with the sheepman's new bonnet. I have yet to see any objzct on this flat earth with such a short lifespan of poise, newness and pride. From a standing start I have seen a newly unwrapped bonnet with ...

Published: Saturday 02 June 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1302 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

State borrowing to rise &\ | state borrowing to rise MRS as output falls JEUEHLLLLCHANEE

... economy could not afford the. increases in public exfimditure as * planned.” Anyone who believes otherwise had best:join the Flat Earth :Society. There can and will be disagreement as to where the *“cuts’ in planned expenditure should have. fallen and on the ...

Published: Tuesday 13 November 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1455 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... received wisdom is today rejected as derisively and convincingly as the four elements, the geocentric universe and the flat earth. So the -existing machinery appears unable to contain, let alone resolve, the problems in this field. And one asks, lln ...

Published: Friday 06 July 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2707 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Mr Wilson ‘depends on cranks, Communists’

... former Conservative Aviation Minister, launched a fierce attack last t on Mr Harold Wilson's “&n‘m neutralist, pacifist, flat-Earth, and other crank ” MPs. - Mr Amery, MP gm said n%m - Horaid Wilson depends on these -He said that nobody had asked us to ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1970
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Fragile apartheid

... rights only to:South Africa’s white minority population. - . gt Tl s S That system was probably sustainable—like belief in a flat earth—until self-doubt (coupled' with rising black aspirations) undermined it. Self-doubt has been building up to such an extent ...

Published: Saturday 06 October 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 468 | Page: 6 | Tags: none