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...LUCK OF GINGER COFFEY. Robert Shaw is superb as a big, genial Irishman who swamps his life and his wife (Mary Ure) in a torrent of blarney...
...Robot. Rockne died in a plane crash in 1931, and for a while it looked as if Notre Dame's football fortunes were riding the same plane: the Irish experienced their first losing season in 45 years. But in 1941, Notre Dame got a new coach?an Irishman, yet?and the leprechauns became giants again. Tough and tightlipped, Frank Leahy had nothing in common with Rockne except a ferocious desire to win all the time. His players called him "The Robot," and he drove them mercilessly. "I want to see blood on the quarterbacks' hands when you snap the ball...
Short of the Goal. Under Sir Alexander Bustamante, 80, a white-maned half-Irishman who organized the island's labor unions in the turbulent 1930s, the government has an ambitious, five-year plan for new schools, hospitals, roads and housing. Shrewd tax benefits have attracted foreign companies to Jamaica -Esso has opened an $18 million refinery, Sterling Drug and International Telephone & Telegraph are building plants. Tourism is thriving, will probably hit about 230,000 people this year. But last year's overall economic growth rate fell short of the plan's intended 5% annual gain, and there...
...perhaps somewhat amusing to see an unknown Irishman run up a 500,000 vote margin on some equally unknown Republican in a race for Treasurer, but it is this serene confidence in victory no matter who runs that has kept the state's politics tied to the lowest common denominator. The present Auditor Theodore Buzcko, was appointed to his post after the death of his predecessor just before the primary because he was a Pole (there hadn't been any Polish constitutional officers for a while) and because he was friendly with both the Kennedy and Bellotti camps, and important...
...likely, though, that the present situation can last forever. The rising importance of economic influences within the various ethnic groups will tend to split them up and assimilate them, and the day will come when a Greek can run for office outside Lowell, and an Irishman can win in the North End. In the meantime, though, the best hope for the Democratic Party and the state lies with the Kennedy's and their allies. There is much truth to the charge that they ran out on the state in 1960, but the fact is that ever since John Kennedy began...