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...Riviera," as they call Eire's eastern counties, where farm land is almost one-fourth the price of comparable terrain in high-priced Germany. However, prices usually soar at the drop of a guttural. After failing to sell 67 rocky acres for $1,000 in 1959, a County Cork farmer recently unloaded 15 of them for $8,000. High prices and scarce land have also brought prosperity to con men. Last week on the Spanish coast, where in some places land has doubled in price to $25 per square yard in one year, one of several convicted German swindlers...
Collectively, they were nicknamed "happy hot dogs," and their numbers included Dean Acheson, Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, James...
...even good news could arrest the drop. Oxford Paper and Sundstrand Corp. (machine tools) proudly posted dividend increases-and the stock of both companies continued to fall. Crown Cork & Seal trumpeted a 25% rise in secondquarter profits; next day, its stock plunged 3 points...
...Boston's John Frederick Collins, 42, has the necessary Irish pedigree but, two generations removed from Cork, represents the new, hard-driving breed of Irish politician typified by the Kennedys. Polio permanently crippled him in 1955 but did not prevent him from winning the mayoralty four years later and setting out to revivify Boston. He has excellent relations with the Yankee hierarchy that rules Boston's business and finance, is the ablest mayor that the city has had since James Michael Curley first flexed his young muscles. In typical Boston fashion, Collins believes that "there is a little...
...first songs at 14. his first opera. L'lle du Réve, at 23. After that, he alternated between opera and ballet. Hahn met Proust when he was 17 (Proust was four years older); later, when his friend was living as a semi-recluse in a cork-lined room, Hahn often played the piano for him. Hahn advised the author on the technical passages about music that keep cropping up in Remembrance of Things Past...