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...light fantastic. On the other hand, the Rockefellers have never been known to disapprove of profitability, and the intimate (4,000-sq.-ft.) Rainbow Grill and its bigger sister, the Rainbow Room (7,000 sq. ft.), are doing better than ever under their present tenants, Neapolitan Tony May and Dublin-born Brian Daly...
...Dublin last week a defiant Lord Killanin, president of the I.O.C., played two new cards that further confused the boycott picture. Killanin unveiled a $1 million "Olympic solidarity" fund created to assist national committees that are short of their usual government grants. (Killanin said the fund was originally for needy Third World nations but will now accommodate others.) He also indicated for the first time that the I.O.C. may per mit athletes from boycotting countries to compete as individuals...
...very wise by leaving it to [Foreign Secretary Lord] Carrington. But he couldn't have done it without her backing." Not coincidentally, Thatcher's worst performance came when Carrington, preoccupied with Rhodesia, was away from her side. At the European Community's summit in Dublin last November, she alienated her Continental colleagues with strident demands for a full rebate of "my money," meaning the $2.5 billion that Britain contributes to the Community's budget...
...prevent amateur fortune hunters from scouring the ruins before experts from Dublin's National Museum got there, the Irish government invoked the Official Secrets Act and declared a 25-sq.-mi. zone around Killenaule a protected area. The chalice, paten and strainer, when found, were covered with a beaten bronze bowl; experts presume that monks had deliberately hidden them in the bog, probably to protect them from marauding Irishmen or even Vikings...
Klein, who is writing a thesis on James Joyce, said he is especially pleased because the scholarship will "give me a chance to hop over to Dublin and go to all the museums...