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...Eamon O'Reilly of Georgetown could have crawled the last 50 yards and still led the huge pack. He shaved 17.6 seconds off the meet record, with a five-mile time of 24:24.2. Two hundred yards behind in second was Charles Messenger of Villanova. Messenger was last year's freshman champion...
Friendship. Then too, there was the Friend of All Cultures. Two weeks ago Johnson entertained Ireland's President Eamon de Valera. Last week he became the first U.S. President to receive officially an Israeli chief of state, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, 68, whom Johnson entertained with a state dinner and Bach music by Violinist Mischa Elman, 73, and by the Parisian Swingle Singers, who perform their Bach with a modern beat. Said Johnson in an accolade to Eshkol: "We are very much alike. We are both farmers." Two months ago he had received an Arab potentate, Jordan...
Ireland's tall, tough President Eamon de Valera, 81, arrived for a ceremonial state visit, went to a White House dinner attended by such American-Irish as Eileen Farrell, Ed Sullivan, Speaker John McCormack. Johnson and De Valera both recalled the warm reception Jack Kennedy had received in Ireland last year-a visit that had led the Irish President to plan his U.S. trip so as to be in Washington on Kennedy's 47th birthday...
...nation's new mood is that of Sean Lemass, who four years ago succeeded Eamon de Valera as Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Though Lemass has been De Valera's protégé and heir apparent for three decades, the two men could not be more dissimilar. "Dev," the aloof, magnetic revolutionary with a martyr's face and mystic's mind, was the sort of leader whom the Irish have adored in every age. Sean Lemass, a reticent, pragmatic planner called "The Quiet Man," is by temperament and ancestry more Gallic than Gaelic, and represents a wholly...
...still hoped to give his fellow judges an occasional helping hand in court. Said he with judicial precision: "When I retired, I did not resign." - On an inspection tour of Dublin's newest national monument- a restoration of Kilmainham Jail that epitomized British domination - Eire's President Eamon de Valera, 79, came not as a stranger. "The Long Fella" himself was the last prisoner to stride from behind its walls into the dawn of Irish freedom in 1924. Said he last week: "I scratched my name on the wall of Cell 59, but I suppose time has erased...