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...twanged his lyre, the world was understandably startled; it was almost like finding a Goethe in a peat croft. But for the next 50 years Ireland kept passing out literary surprises, for first-rate writers came along as fast as poteen at a christening: Russell, Synge, Gogarty, O'Casey, Joyce, O'Flaherty. O'Connor, McLaverty. In Part I of 1000 Years of Irish Prose (Part II, covering the first 930 years, will be published next year), Editors Mercier and Greene have made selections that lead like steppingstones through the turbulence of the great times; and almost every...
...foreign ministers of Australia and New Zealand, Richard G. Casey and T. Clifton Webb, pulled up chairs around a green baize table at Kaneohe Marine Air Station in Honolulu this week, full of announced eagerness, to face Secretary of State Dean Acheson, whose mission was to send them away disappointed...
...Australia became acutely aware of her isolated geographical position and, in the face of Asia's agitated masses, her own lack of people. "We must populate or perish," sloganed Arthur Calwell, the Labor government's Immigration Minister. "We must double or quit," wrote Liberal Leader R. G. Casey. At war's end the opposition political parties were agreed on one point: large-scale immigration. In the past six years 700,000 Europeans-including 165,000 D.P.s-have entered Australia, a larger intake, in proportion to the population (8,000,000), than that of the U.S. during its greatest...
...Casey County News advertised...
...Robot camera which Miller had hung around his neck under his shirt. With it, he took 108 pictures of the meeting. Next day he had an addition. He picked up two copies of a fat book (The World's Greatest Doers- The Story of Lions, by Robert Casey and W.A.S. Douglas), hollowed them out, stuck them together, and fitted a Contax camera into them. With this contraption, Miller snapped most of a roll of film before the camera was spotted by a sergeant-at-arms. Cameraman Miller was waved...