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...Williams, the third man for Harvard, demolished Paul Fein, 15-11, 15-10, 15-10. Terry Robinson smashed Bob Merrill, 15-7, 15-7, 15-10; Alan Terrell beat Mike Key, 15-13, 15-3, 15-7; Dinny Adams breezed past Joe Friedman, 15-6, 15-8, 15-11; and John Francis topped Chuck Henderson, 15-12, 15-10, 15-11 to round on the Crimson victory...
Porther & Shamrock. In economic terms, Ireland's insular ideal proved disastrous. True to the aims of the Sinn Fein (Ourselves Alone) movement, the government in the '30s discouraged foreign investment in Ireland, raised some of the world's highest tariff barriers to exclude British goods and protect new, highly inefficient domestic industry. The result of its belt tightening was a rising tide of emigrants that by 1956 reached 600,000, highest since the 1890s...
Heat with Peat. When Sinn Fein broke apart, young Lemass was the chief architect of De Valera's new Fianna Fail (Heroes of Destiny) Party, which came to power in 1932 and has been in office almost continually ever since. At 32, Lemass was the youngest member of De Valera's Cabinet and earned the affectionate Biblical sobriquet "Benjamin" (after Jacob's youngest son). Though Dev had taught mathematics-and is fervently believed by many fond compatriots to be one of the 13 men on earth who comprehend the theory of relativity-the Taoiseach had neither head...
...colonial Spain, forged modern Germany out of a score of principalities, unified fragmented Italy with Cavour's leadership. Under this glorious banner, Irishmen and Poles and Czechs fought and died to achieve their nationhood. Its spirit was reflected in the name of the Irish revolutionary society Sinn Fein (We Ourselves...
...Falz-Fein is determined to press on, with or without the government's blessing. "I have studied all the Olympic rules," says he, "and if there are any amateurs in America, they will be ours." One problem still vexes him. U.S. promoters, apparently expecting little from Liechtenstein's skiers, have asked that he bring Miss Liechtenstein to the United States to spruce up the scenery. "Where," asks the noble baron, "do we find a pretty girl here? We are a country of peasants. If I held a beauty contest, the Chief of Government would send me straight...