Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NORTHERN IRELAND...
...Ireland, Brendan Corish, leader of the Labor Party, credits Kennedy with leading the world into forming "the Trinity of Peace, with Pope John XXIII and Khrushchev." In the past three months, major Italian magazines have carried nine cover stories either on Jack or some other Kennedy, and only one on Johnson. Says Author-Politician Luigi Barzini (The Italians): "Kennedy has attained a superman stature in Italian eyes. He was the man of hope, the man who could have done anything. He was the man who could have brought lasting peace to the entire world...
...sales last year. All of the divisions are busy on several continents. Olin has just opened a caustic soda plant in Georgia and a sporting ammunition plant in Italy, is building a biological research laboratory in New Jersey, a plywood plant (its first) in Louisiana, and a plant in Ireland to produce an ingredient for antidandruff shampoo...
Died. William Thomas Cosgrave, 85, Ireland's President from 1922 to 1932, an early member of the revolutionary Sinn Fein and active participant in the bloody 1916 uprising, who then sided with the moderates accepting Britain's offer of self-rule, in 1922 became President of the Irish Free State, working ably to put the exhausted country on its feet, establish an efficient legislature, stabilize finances and improve agriculture, but still lost to Eamon de Valera in 1932, thereafter leading the opposition until retirement in 1944; of a heart attack; in County Dublin; Ireland...
...some priceless 3rd century papyri of the New Testament. "In 51 years of collecting I've accumulated quite a few fine Oriental texts," the U.S.-born British magnate mused proudly. Then he announced that he is bequeathing the 3,000-volume accumulation, valued at $8,000,000, to Ireland, where he has had a home for 18 years, because "the Irish are charming and friendly, and they like old books...