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...Irish as Eileen Farrell, Ed Sullivan, Speaker John McCormack. Johnson and De Valera both recalled the warm reception Jack Kennedy had received in Ireland last year-a visit that had led the Irish President to plan his U.S. trip so as to be in Washington on Kennedy's 47th birthday...
...state, Alabama came to know the darkest sort of poverty and to experience the bitterness and hatred that such poverty can inspire. Even today, Alabama rates 47th among the states in per capita income ($1,538), leading only Arkansas, South Carolina and Mississippi. And, at a time when George Wallace is inveighing against the Federal Government in the name of states' rights, the extent to which Alabama depends on economic help from the Government is an immense irony...
Captain Robert Se'mer, 40, of Falls Church, Va., a Navy jet pilot, was walking with two companions along 47th Street near Third Avenue one evening when a high wind whipped a plank from a nearby building under construction. The plank crashed down on him and severed his right...
Unlike two other famous Manhattan business streets. Madison Avenue and Wall Street, West 47th is virtually a closed corporation-except to men with relatives in the trade. "A man's knowledge is his livelihood," explains Dealer David Ruff. "You make a decision a minute, and it's easy to make a costly mistake." Most wholesale dealers have small shops, sell at a 5% or 7% markup, employ brokers who do the actual leg work for a 1% or 2% commission. Nearly 80% of the West 47th Street trade is wholesale, but there is also a thriving retail business...
...enforce the street's reliance on mutual trust, however, there is an extraordinary extralegal judicial system maintained by the two diamond clubs that function as West 47th Street's stock exchanges or trading centers. Arbitration panels meet as needed to settle disputes between traders. If a man is found to be dishonest, he can be expelled from the club, cannot use the facilities of any other diamond club in the world. Says one top diamond man: "That's the biggest motive a fellow has for behaving himself...