Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fresh from a fishing vacation in Ireland, Charlie Chaplin reported that he is getting ready to produce, direct, write and score a film starring his son Sydney. "If it wasn't for the cinema," he confessed, "I'd probably be digging ditches-or a traveling musician. But I wouldn't be first-rate, and I think that is what I have been...
...some of the most literate audiences in the U.S. While salvaging such once-poor Jewish boys as Bernard Baruch and Billy Rose, the 92nd Street YMHA has always refused to be parochial. In 1880, for example, it led New York Jews in raising cash for "the starving people in Ireland." Nowadays about 15% of its membership is non-Jewish. Unlike Christian Ys, this one has been unabashedly coed since World War II. Mixing is the rule in everything from the swimming pool to the residence halls, which in a recent year produced eleven engagements that broke the shower-giving Happy...
...speaking. Canada's advance party took off from Ontario while the Security Council was still debating the formation of the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus-which will unfortunately be known as U.N.F.I.C.Y.P.-and it landed in Nicosia far ahead of contingents also due from Brazil, Sweden, Ireland, Austria and Finland. There was reason to hurry, because it almost seemed as if the island's 500,000 Greeks and the government of Archbishop Makarios were trying to subdue the 100,000 Turkish minority before the U.N. takes control...
...least one other neutral, non-NATO nation join the operation as well. Finland would fill the bill, but could not immediately because President Urho Kekkonen was out of the country. Brazil, torn by domestic unrest and a faltering economy, could not spare even a battalion. That left Austria and Ireland. But Austria, trapped by a Cabinet crisis, was without a government, and Ireland was willing to play follower, not leader...
Born. To her Majesty Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, 37, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and'Northern Ireland, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, 42, Duke of Edinburgh: their fourth child, third son (third in line to the succession); in Buckingham Palace; an event that sent a 41-gun salute echoing across London, spliced Royal Navy mainbraces the world over, brought forth one of Poet Laureate John Masefield's instant odes, bidding...