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FRANCISCO DA COSTA GOMES, President, is known in Lisbon political circles as "the cork"; that is because he always manages to bob to the surface after every storm. Conciliatory and pragmatic, always searching for ways to avoid conflict, Costa Gomes, 61, is the kind of avuncular friend that others turn to in moments of crisis. Thus, although he did not take an active role in the April 1974 revolution, he was the first choice of the captains and majors who led the armed forces to head the Junta of National Salvation. After the coup succeeded, he was appointed chief...
...government and community affairs: "Who's that now, Kentucky, UCLA, Louisville, Syracuse? Well, there's no use my looking at those four teams, since I'm not interested in professional sports. Now, what I really care about is the all-Ireland hurling final this fall, I'm confident Cork will...
...From the way Holmes plowed through Coleridge, you can imagine the type of mind he must have had," recalled "Tommy the Cork" Corcoran whom Holmes once described as "quite satisfactory, quite noisy, quite satisfactory...
...Those Americans who lack basic food and shelter even now do so mostly from ignorance and mismanagement of the benefits available to them. Those around Washington who remember the bonus marchers of 1932 recall them as actually on a "hunger march." The men were destitute. Attorney Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran watched General Douglas MacArthur and his aide Dwight Eisenhower ride off to disperse this pitiful army on the Anacostia flats. New Dealer Abe Fortas came down as a kid lawyer out of Yale in the summer of 1933. He arrived in the Department of Agriculture with his suitcase...
...excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...