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...team and took pride in their job and their country." On Delta, the food had some flavor and was gracefully served, which is not always true on the airline's domestic flights. High praise goes to "the smiling Irish eyes" of Aer Lingus' stewardesses, though the non-Hibernian meals would be rejected at the lowliest Dublin pub. The guide also has high praise for Sir Freddie Laker and his pioneering, price-cutting Skytrain, "the most exciting development on the hitherto complacent transatlantic travel scene." The crews are smart and thoughtful, the meals attractively priced. "But, alas," reports Ronay...
Olive and Mary Anne seems unlikely to win the author a vast new public. Audiences will be attracted by another, larger project. NBC has plans for a high-budget miniseries based on Studs Lonigan-a kind of Hibernian Roots. The notion of commercial television popularizing an old radical is an irony too strong even for a James T. Farrell character-and just right for this neglected author...
...meeting, an Irish delegate, although warned not to contribute to a special fund, was impelled by Hibernian hubris to kick in a few million pounds when he heard the Arabs pledging huge sums. On his return to Dublin, the head of the Central Bank said to him gloomily, "My God, man, do you realize what you've done? Now the government will have to put another penny tax on a pint of stout...
...course, anyone who looks at Corry's book as a kind of Hibernian Roots is bound for a disappointment. The Murrays and McDonnells were simply not typical Irish-American families--none of Tom Murray's descendants would even look at a blue collar unless it buttoned down and didn't clash with a neatly striped tie. Up in the rarefied atmosphere of the really big money, strange things can happen, even to a family bent on preserving its heritage; and sometimes the Irish rich acted more rich than Irish. Such conditions could never produce a conventional saga of Irish Catholicism...
...rates that vary by as much as 4% on the same currencies, and hotels change money at substantially worse rates than banks. The Hilton in Dusseldorf, for example, gave only 3.25 Deutsche Mark to the dollar last week, while the official rate stood at 3.38. Dublin's Royal Hibernian Hotel offered 37 new pence to the dollar, while American Express gave 40-a spread of 7½%. For those who wish to get the best deals, TIME correspondents offer the following advice...