Word: lemass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
After 3½ years of rule dependent on an alliance with independent members of the Dail-the Irish lower house-Lemass hoped to get a working majority. The opposition came from the Fine Gael Party led by James Dillon and the small but aggressive Labor Party of Brendan Corish. Lemass could, and did, campaign on the economic progress of recent years (TIME cover July 12, 1963). Fine Gael and Labor concentrated their fire on the lack of welfare planning. Fine Gael, which is normally conservative and devoted to free enterprise, veered left and proposed a "more equitable distribution...
...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 Fail held 71 seats, a rise of one; Fine Gael, 46. Labor won 21 seats and Independents captured three. With almost half of the 144 seats in the Dail and the support of at least one independent, Lemass could govern Ireland-but just barely...
...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...
...parents were not the only ones avoiding her. Official Washington boycotted her completely. The closest President Kennedy got to her was half a block away-he was guest of honor at a reception given by Ireland's Prime Minister Sean Lemass at the Mayflower Hotel while she was getting a permanent and having her nails polished (pearly pink) at a nearby Elizabeth Arden salon. "I know that this visit is unofficial," she complained, "and did not expect a red carpet. But there are 100 ways in which the Government could have shown me friendliness...