Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further buoyed by its new financing arrangements. Purpose of the ten-year credit package was to stanch flight from the pound by countries in the so-called "sterling area," which consists of all British dependencies and Commonwealth members (except Canada), plus such other countries as Kuwait, Jordan, Libya and Ireland. Because they hold the bulk of their reserves in pounds, most sterling-area members suffered automatic losses when the pound was devalued-and a number of them have lately been selling off large amounts of sterling out of fear that Britain might be forced to devalue again...
...Trivia nothing! The impact of late show dialogue far outweighs the cliche factor. John Ireland to Montgomery Clift in Red River: "There's only two things in the world nicer than a good gun: A Swiss watch and a woman from anywhere. Ever have a good Swiss watch...
...effects a lightning change of mood, and obscenely comments, "So much for that. Now for our Irish wars." Announcing his confiscation of all Gaunt's property, rightfully belonging to Boling-broke, he toys with a dagger, whangs it into a chair, and can hardly wait to push off for Ireland. This acting is hair-raising in its impact...
...celebrate the anniversary, the family gave $250,000 to the Scotch-Irish Trust of Ulster to buy the old dwelling from its latter-day owner (who had thriftily converted it to a farm building for hay storage and pigs). Then they invited 400 guests, including Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, to a gala housewarming. The natives were delighted. Long envious of the outpouring of American sentimentality for the boozy, poetic republic to the south and of the stir created whenever a Kennedy came to call at Wexford, the citizens of Ulster could at last display...
...Ulster is not about to forget the name. The Northern Ireland government provided Cadillacs for any MelIons that needed transportation, even furnished an athletic subofficial as a partner for a Mellon who got a sudden impulse for a spot of tennis. After giving the assembled Mellons a ceremonial dinner in the Parliament building in Belfast, Prime Minister O'Neill journeyed next day to Omagh to help dedicate the ancestral cottage. Said he: "This home will forever be a monument not just to the Mellon family but to the potential of human character in a land of opportunity...