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...party machinery of the Irish Republic's ruling Fianna Fáil (Soldiers of Destiny) had rarely run more smoothly. In northeast Dublin, its workers delivered scores of voters to polling places in a shuttle of buses. In the Rialto district, they assembled strange processions of the elderly and infirm who looked as if they could scarcely make it to the nearest park bench, much less to the ballot box. There was even a Spanish nun, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna...
...country gentleman who raises horses for fox hunting on his 30-acre farm outside Dublin, Cosgrave has little of the easy pub manner that Irish voters customarily favor. "Bloody good!" shouted one of his supporters as the returns came in last week. "Isn't that bloody good?" "Yes," replied Cosgrave crisply in his best Clifton Webb manner, a pink flush of pleasure on his face. "This is a good result...
Died. Jack MacGowran, 54, Irish actor who, while moving from meager bit parts in Dublin's Abbey Theater to meaty roles in television, stage and film (as the fool in King Lear, the mad soldier in How I Won the War), earned his best notices interpreting the work of his playwright friends Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett; of heart disease; in Manhattan, where he was playing in O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (TIME...
...Cheap. Their crusades can pay off. When Sports Huddle lambasted Richard Nixon for not congratulating the Bruins for winning the 1970 Stanley Cup, 30,000 listeners sent protest letters to the White House. The President responded with a congratulatory telegram and later, while driving in a convertible in Dublin, held up a sign saying BOSTON BRUINS ARE NO. 1. Claiming that the Patriots were "too cheap" to find a decent field-goal kicker, Sports Huddle launched a "Search for Superfoot" among 1,600 English soccer players; the winner, Mike Walker, a Lancashire bricklayer, was not only signed by the Patriots...
Despite the tragedies of war and death, laughter and the mean and drunken energies of life go on. While a British warship is shelling this Dublin slum, O'Casey's characters are out looting the shops, trying on fancy hats, trundling pianos down the streets and pulling big double beds out of broken shop windows. O'Casey's turbulent canvas of humanity makes him almost a Brueghel among playwrights...