Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, enterprising families can still find ample superordinate goals. The possibilities range from tutoring slum kids to organizing block councils, restoring old houses, sailing a sloop to Ireland and running Pop for political office. Steve Hutchison, an Oregon artist, rancher and father of two young sons, offers more ideas: "Build a summer cabin, save the hoot owl, collect thunder eggs, build a telescope, pioneer in Alaska, which desperately needs able people." If the family still lacks a common crisis, says Hutchison, "Hire a wolf to howl at the door...
...Ireland is so fearful that the disease may spread to its shores that travelers from Britain are required to walk through clouds of pungent disinfectant at Irish airports, and the Irish government placed ads in British papers appealing to Irish workers in Britain not to come home for the holidays. France, Germany, Belgium and Holland have banned meat imports from the United Kingdom. Australia has ruled that emigrants from Britain can enter the country only by ship, not by air, in order to diminish the likelihood of the virus' living long enough to infect Australian herds with the disease...
Died. Patrick Kavanagh, 62, Irish poet; of pneumonia; in Dublin. Better known for his acid tongue than for his lyric poetry, Kavanagh found modern poetry "pretentious," Emerson "a sugary humbug," Yeats "You can have him." Yet Ireland knew him as one of its strongest talents for such works as "The Great Hunger...
...imports cheaper for Americans while U.S. exports will be more expensive for the 23 nations whose currencies have been devalued. For another, it will certainly encourage more U.S. tourists to head abroad to take advantage of bargain prices in countries that have adopted minipounds or minipesetas. "Now Britain and Ireland give you more for your money," trumpeted Pan American World Airways in newspaper ads 36 hours after sterling was devalued. "Things that used to cost the equivalent of $1 now cost you only...
Denmark Did Less. Of the 22 countries that also cut the value of their money, most were small, sterling-area nations whose fortunes depend on their sales to Britain, or to other devaluing countries. Sixteen precisely matched the 14.3% British devaluation: Barbados, Bermuda, Cyprus, Fiji, Gambia, Guyana, Israel, Ireland, Jamaica, Malawi, Malta, Mauritius, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago. At first, Hong Kong lowered the exchange value of its dollar by a like amount, but the price of food (mostly imported from mainland China) and other goods promptly jumped between 7% and 20%, stirring so much discontent among...