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Similarly, while rural backgrounds may have hindered Irishmen in their attempts to adjust to urban life, migrants from rural America had little difficulty adjusting. And the Irish at least had the advantage over other European groups of not having to adjust to a new language. What is more, many second-generation immigrants in Boston also had low upward mobility, and they grew up in an urban environment. Also, Thernstrom demonstrates that the degree of upward mobility within an ethnic group is unrelated to the extent that the group is segregated from the rest of society...
...middle of last week, 791 Swedes, Finns, Irishmen and Austrians from the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus had picked their way through heavily mined areas to positions between the Egyptian and Israeli armies along the Suez Canal. The first and most difficult objective of this vanguard of what is expected to be a 7,000-man United Nations Emergency Force was to locate the cease-fire line on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Last week TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin visited the U.N. forces and sent this report...
...called "invincible Irishmen" from Providence College can return to the Rhode Island capital and have a good old Irish wake today--for yesterday the Crimson harriers laid to rest any hopes Providence might have entertained about going unbeaten in New England. Harvard downed the Friars and a tough UMass squad in yesterday's dual meet at Franklin Park. The combined scores were: Harvard 37; UMass 39; and Providence...
...strong men on the Providence team are two Irishmen, reported to be among the best in their nation. And Ireland, after all, has been stocking the Villanova powerhouse for years...
...instance, there is their wry little confession that "Jack did like to have things done for him without hearing about the ' problems and difficulties involved." A touch of cruelty peeps through their obligatory record of Kennedy wit. A bit sadistically, he made Powers tell Irish jokes to Irishmen in Dublin. Once he ordered O'Donnell to lie over the phone while he watched...