Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never really enjoyed being in Australia as a child," she said. Her parents were Irish and they had relatives in London whom she was permitted to visit when she was quite young. Upon arriving in England she sent a poem she had written to a family friend in Ireland who happened to be editor of the Irish Statesman. The family friend was A. E. (George Russell), poet and intimate of William Butler Yeats. He liked the poem, and sent the young poetess two guineas for it. "He said he was sure no one but an Irish person could have written...
...Bird, the French champion and 6-to-5 favorite, was also 1) the winner of the English Derby and 2) a grandson of the U.S.'s Native Dancer. Russia's Anilin had British ancestors. Ireland's Meadow Court, the 1965 Sweeps winner, boasted a British sire, an American dam, and a trio of owners composed of two Canadians and Bing Crosby. Then there was the U.S.'s Tom Rolfe, bred in Kentucky, with a name that goes all the way back to Pocahontas. His daddy and granddaddy were Italian, and his owner is an American...
Moot but Significant. The court established its power of judicial review in 1960 in its very first case. Gerard Lawless, a suspected Irish Republican Army terrorist, whom Ireland locked up for three months without a hearing under "emergency" laws, had questioned the legality of his imprisonment. The court upheld Defendant Ireland's action as justified under the circumstances; in so doing, it also asserted its then disputed right to interpret the convention and pass upon the conduct of subscribing nations...
Pakistan is offering saris for $15 to $45 and 17 tall cedars (for the best offer). Israel is marketing fur coats, and Ireland is selling lace and sweaters (highest bids). Thailand wants to sell its temple-like pavilion. Montana wants to sell a 300-ft.-long boardwalk, a 56-ft.-long public lavatory, and its live elk. Florida is asking $50,000 for Smokey, a porpoise trained to spit out fires and play basketball. Dozens of companies are selling computers, typewriters, video tape recorders and other equipment...
...Reform Bill, which was one of President Johnson's major legislative objectives, wipes out some of the obvious inadequacies of the National Origins System enacted in 1924. The present quota system allows only 158,561 immigrants annually with a 70 per cent allotment going to Britain, Ireland, and Germany...