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Northern Ireland can and does take considerable pride in its emigrant sons. Davy Crockett's parents came from Ulster. So did the ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some 50 members of what is probably America's richest family gathered at the old family homestead -a clay-floored, thatch-roofed cottage near Omagh in County Tyrone...
...Springfield (pop. 170,000), the loss of 2,400 jobs and $27 million in annual payrolls and other expenditures from the city's third largest industry could have been catastrophic. "The whole economy of Springfield," says Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Paul J. Greeley, "was based on George Washington's decision to build an armory here...
...success of the conversion program has also given the city a psychological lift. "We had a real lack of confidence in our ability to merchandise our town," says the Chamber of Commerce's Greeley. "This gave us a kick in the pants when we needed it the most." Indeed, Springfield is so kicked up about the success of its program that it has undertaken to raise another $650,000 to buy as a tourist attraction a collection of 11,000 small arms that is said to be the world's biggest and best and is being eyed...
While Horace Greeley did not write his autobiography until he was 57 and Henry Adams waited until he was 67, Willie Morris was in more of a hurry. Just six months after becoming editor in chief of Harper's, he has published his memoirs at 32. "It could have been an act of real pretension," he concedes, and it probably is. But Morris decided to "tell it as it really is, to tell the reader something about belonging in America...
ROBERT E. BLUHM Colorado State College Greeley...