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...final, the freshmen fell to Neptune, a club from Dublin, Ireland, by two-thirds of a length. Harvard led at the start, fell behind by three-quarters of a length at the three-quarter mile mark, then pulled almost even toward the end of the 1-5/16 mile course. Neptune was warned for faulty steering four times, and covered the course...
...more than a month, throughout the Republic of Ireland, newspapers were occupied, minds preoccupied, with the bitterly divisive issue. From lyrical Killarney in the south to impoverished Ballybunion in the west, hand-lettered signs dotted street corners with a single simple message: VOTE NO. In Dublin's Parnell Square, demonstrators waved placards that mockingly read, DOES DIVORCE WORK? ASK LIZ TAYLOR. Not far away, several women, trapped in unhappy marriages, chained themselves to the railings of parliament. Bishops decried the proposal from pulpits, while the country's most influential paper, The Irish Times, defended it. Everywhere, the debate raged...
...burglar alarm at Russborough House, the country estate of British Millionaire Sir Alfred Beit located 18 miles southwest of Dublin, went off at < 2 a.m. Police searched the premises, found nothing amiss, then left. The next morning, the administrator of the collection discovered that 18 paintings worth an estimated $45 million had been stolen. Sir Alfred put the blame on "thieves of a political nature...
...employees. Veteran staffers who find new prospects for the payroll can also win up to $100. In Missouri's affluent St. Louis County, McDonald's recently offered free movie tickets to passersby in order to fill a hall with youngsters for a hiring spiel. In Dublin, Ohio, Denny Lynch, a vice president of Wendys International, says that the burger chain is looking into scholarships as a lure to start young people on an up-from-the-bottom career with the company...
...Toyota sedan drew up to the hillside Dublin mansion of John Guinness, a local banker related to the celebrated clan of brewers. After ringing the doorbell, three hooded men, brandishing guns, forced their way into the house and began ransacking it for valuables. Then they started to make off with Guinness's daughter Gillian, 23, before acceding to the request of her mother Jennifer that they take her instead. As the hoods left, they demanded a $2.6 million ransom...