Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ireland's tall, tough President Eamon de Valera, 81, arrived for a ceremonial state visit, went to a White House dinner attended by such American-Irish as Eileen Farrell, Ed Sullivan, Speaker John McCormack. Johnson and De Valera both recalled the warm reception Jack Kennedy had received in Ireland last year-a visit that had led the Irish President to plan his U.S. trip so as to be in Washington on Kennedy's 47th birthday...
...chats with family and friends. At week's end, with her sister Princess Radziwill, Caroline and John Jr., she flew to a family reunion in Hyannis Port, and to appear in a transatlantic TV birthday tribute with Britain's Harold Macmillan, Berlin's Willy Brandt, Ireland's Sean Lemass...
...export that is sold at home: tourism. This year it will grow by almost 10%. Some 60 million international tourists will spend $9 billion, which in turn will generate $29 billion in wages, purchases and taxes in the countries they visit. Already such countries as Italy, Spain, Austria and Ireland earn more from tourism than any other export...
This vigorous façade weaves through space like the interlacing illuminations in the Irish Book of Kells. Set on a rusticated granite base, the moated turret echoes ancient Celtic round castles scattered across the green countryside, recalls the Martello towers built to defend Ireland's coasts during Napoleonic times. Johansen even made studies of how soot streaks the concrete so that the walls would weather with character...
...raised enough new capital ($26 billion) to buy up the gold reserves of the U.S., Britain and several European countries. With 733,000 workers, the company employs a labor force greater than the population of Boston; its annual wage bill of $4.7 billion exceeds the gross national product of Ireland and Israel combined. A.T.&T.'s 1963 revenues, which reached almost $10 billion, amounted to more than the combined incomes of 30 state governments and accounted for 1.7% of the gross national product...