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...hard aground on the reef in front of the house. Every few days, Brigitte would wearily telephone Saint-Tropez Rescue Captain Jean Des-pas: "Another boat is on the rocks. Would you please come pull it off?" Boston's salty Richard Cardinal Gushing, 69, rumbled back to the auld sod for an eleven-day visit, cocked his cardinal's hat and began peppering the Irish countryside with foine, unclerical prose. "I was nearly going to be a Jesuit," he reported, "but on the night before I was to join the novitiate, I quit. The Jesuits have been thanking...
...prove it. And who should it be that Charles de Gaulle, 74, hails back to but Rudricus the Great, who ruled Ireland with might and main for 70 years before he died in 219 B.C. His descendants took the name MacCartan, and in 1711, a MacCartan emigrated from the Auld Sod to France where he married convent-educated Susanne Decoetlogon, who bore him five children, one of whom turned out to be De Gaulle's great-great-greatgrandfather on his mother's side...
...British Labor Party's official song is more auld hat than Auld Lang Syne. At the party's annual conference in Brighton last week, the leaders as usual linked hands on the platform and (to the tune known in the U.S. as Maryland, My Maryland) chanted the quaint lyrics...
...Nairobi Airport, the last British combat troops-80 in all- slow-marched through ranks of the native Third Kenya Rifles to the strains of Auld Lang Syne, then were whisked away aboard an R.A.F. transport. That midnight, before 50,000 in a Nairobi stadium, Kenyatta's new presidential stand ard was unfurled-crossed spears super imposed on a tribal shield, flanked by a crowing cock...
...handsomest, most dangerous twelve-meter yachts to visit U.S. waters. Some time between now and the start of the America's Cup races on Sept. 15, the Royal Thames Yacht Club as challenger will choose either Sovereign or Kurrewa V to wrest away the ugly "auld mug" that has been in U.S. hands ever since the competition started 113 years and 18 fruitless challenges...