Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first-come, first-served basis. The maximum for any one nation will be 20,000 - a figure exceeded last year only by Germany's 22,628 and the United Kingdom's 28,653. Until then, the unused allotments of such high-quota na tions as Britain and Ireland will be transferred to such low-quota lands as Italy and India, where would-be immigrants now often have to wait a decade or more for their turn...
...England, the bedeviled Quakers fleeing to Pennsylvania as a haven, the Huguenots escaping to South Carolina from France's intolerant Sun King. But it was not until 1840 that the tide really began to flow, and it did not ebb for nearly a century. A blight in Ireland and a pogrom in Russia, a famine in Scandinavia and civil strife in South China, starvation in Sicily and crop failures in Greece, a wave of political repression in the Austro-Hungarian Empire-all fed the tide. It crested in the decade 1905-14, when more than...
...Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri Mitropoulos (Greece...
...Children. It is not easy for just any dog to get into most countries. In Ireland, Great Britain and Hawaii, a dog must spend four to six months in quarantine before admittance. The U.S.S.R. gives dogs a flat nyet. And in Australia, if the dog has not resided in Ireland or Mother England for at least six months, it is destroyed on arrival. But in places like Italy, France, West Germany and Spain, all that is required for admission is such simple things as a veterinarian's certificate, plus a record of antirabies shots...
...Rolfe: the $128,100 American Derby, by 2½ easy lengths, at Arlington Park; in Arlington Heights, Ill. Owned by Raymond Guest, U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, the three-year-old colt, win ner of the Preakness Stakes, led most of the way to score his ninth victory in twelve starts this year. Tom Rolfe's next stop: France, and the $150,000-added Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe...