Word: easterlies
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Back in 1960, baseball was the hottest sport in Buffalo. Not that any Buffalo sport was hot news. The Bisons of the International League, managed by Kerby Farrell and featuring such stars as Bobby Wine, Ed Kranepool, and Big Luke Easter, had nothing to contend with in the local sports news. Hockey, and famous names like Dennis DeJordy, Wayne Maki, and Ed Van Impe (who have risen to anonymity with hockey expansion), at that time still ended before...
...Irish Republic from 1959 to 1966; in Dublin. The protégé of Eamon de Valera, Lemass graduated to Parliament from the crucible of the Black and Tan conflict. At 16 he holed up with Irish Republican Army soldiers in Dublin's General Post Office during the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Fifteen rebels were shot and thousands deported after British shells ended the uprising, but Lemass was released. According to Dublin legend, "the cops gave him a kick in the arse and told him to go home to his Mom." He went underground instead. When De Valera...
Prince Philip, who passed through just before Easter, sized up the situation succinctly: "Obviously, you've all given up something for Lent." In Royal Air Force parlance, Gan is an "unaccompanied post"-the only one in the R.A.F.-and that means unaccompanied by wives or girl friends, because there is no room for them on the island. There are 650 men on Gan, but only one female, an Irish matron sent out by the Women's Royal Volunteer Service "to give the lads someone to tell their problems to." They would burn her ears off if they...
...Pope Paul VI's Easter-time blast at resigning Catholic priests [April 19] is staggering even to those of us who have become relatively inured to the aberrant nature of papal statements in recent years. If Paul's sentiments represent the church he claims to serve, we former priests are happier somewhere else. Judas, we recall, sold his master for a material profit. One wonders whether any institution in history has so consistently sold out on its principles and ideals as the Roman branch of Christendom-not now for 30 silver pieces, but for prestige, legal immunity...
...town square, little has happened to distinguish the last few months in Mexico from any others. "Coronel" Sanlers has made his debut treating Cuernavaca to Real Kentucky Fried Chicken at his new concession snuggled between Burger Boy and the snappy Cafe Universal, the weather has grown hotter and the Easter Weck crowds have come and gone. None of these things are surprising. American cultural expansion, hot weather and the passing of vacations does little to differentiate this year from last for the people who sit at the Vienna. But those who cross the street to buy a newspaper...