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...storm-ravaged coast of Southwest Ireland lie the six fog-bound Blasket Isles,* where 14 centuries ago Ireland's Celtic saints built Christian shrines of turf and mud to fend off pixies, pookas, hobgoblins and leprechauns. In 1588, a 1,000-ton Spanish galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair...
...compulsory national health service, Governor Murray nevertheless lambasted the profession for the 'millions of dollars spent in the last ten years to fight such schemes. "You have been able to scare the very britches off the politicians," he said, "and to date you have been able to fend off the advances of the socialistic trend, but you and I both know you haven't stopped it by any means . . . During all of this fight you have failed completely to rally a militant public opinion to your support . . . What about your neighbors across the alley or your patients...
Never Forget. During World War II, many a medical man was forced to leave his private patients to fend for themselves. The osteopaths got their business, but still chafed at the fact that the Army did not consider their professional services worth drafting into military service. They get just as touchy over the patronizing assumption of broad-minded M.D.s that osteopathy will one day "be absorbed into the general practice of medicine." "Never," says Assistant Executive Secretary Eldon McKenna of the American Osteopathic Association, "at least, never so long as medical men refuse to accept the osteopathic cause and cure...
Thomas and Thoman renew their backstroke fend at 2:30 p.m. in the 100-yard eliminations. Steinhart is a strong favorite for third, along with Navy's Boyd Johnson...
...with what. Gray admits that rearming the West is going to make the financing of his aid programs just that much harder; he also notes that building up undeveloped areas will be a tough and expensive hob in itself. Gray also believes that Europe is not yet ready to fend for itself; there is a lot of evidence to indicate that even this moderate position may be too optimistic. European recovery has been good but not spectacular, and there is still much to be done...