Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maryland's deep, sandy tracks. His breeding probably had something to do with it too. Sired by Ribot, two-time winner of the Prix de 1'Arc de Triomphe, Tom Rolfe was foaled by the stakes-winning mare Pocahontas. Owner Raymond Guest, the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland, named him after the son of the real Pocahontas, who grew tobacco in the days when smoking was still a social sort of vice...
...rapidly being ruined beyond all redemption by freeways. Here on the Peninsula, they are busy blasting the way for an eight-lane freeway. This monstrous road will cut through a scenery of hills and lakes that has been compared to the Lake District in England or Killarney in Ireland. The California Division of Highways simply has too much money and too few restrictions...
...only thing wrong with last week's general election in Ireland was that it didn't solve anything. The campaign was one of the shortest on record -lasting only four weeks after Premier Sean Lemass decided to take his Fianna Fail Party to the country...
Apparently, Ireland's 1,700,000 voters did not know quite what to make of it as they trudged to the polls on election day. After casting their ballots, everyone sat back and waited while election officials struggled with the complex Irish proportional representation system. In two constituencies, recounts were called for by narrowly beaten candidates. In Longford, West Meath, the loser claimed that mental patients in Mullingar hospital, allowed to vote for the first time, had been subject to undue influence by their doctors. With three seats subject to recount, at week's end Lemass' Fianna...
...team is cosmopolitan enough to stage its own Olympics. Its members hall from England, Ireland, Nigeria, and Greece as well as 21 states, including Alaska...