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...progress that at last has reversed the emigration rate. It will take more than a few factories to make of Ireland another Ruhr, but the changed landscape is a sight to see, as shown by the eight pages of color this week that accompany the cover story on Sean Lemass, who represents the new spirit in the ould...
...nation's new mood is that of Sean Lemass, who four years ago succeeded Eamon de Valera as Taoiseach (Prime Minister). Though Lemass has been De Valera's protégé and heir apparent for three decades, the two men could not be more dissimilar. "Dev," the aloof, magnetic revolutionary with a martyr's face and mystic's mind, was the sort of leader whom the Irish have adored in every age. Sean Lemass, a reticent, pragmatic planner called "The Quiet Man," is by temperament and ancestry more Gallic than Gaelic, and represents a wholly...
Though Sean Lemass is often chided in Parliament for foot-dragging on housing and farm reform, most of the nation's problems are a longtime legacy of national poverty and political timidity. What is radiantly different about Ireland today is the serious expectation that its ills and lags will in fact be corrected. Lemass will soon release details of a new six-year economic program that aims to boost the G.N.P...
...Lemass' bold program of industrialization has already created new jobs and wealth in an economy whose primary product, beef for Britain, has been the same for as long as there have been potatoes to go with it. As new opportunity at home lowers the perilously high emigration rate, the government is finally beginning to rebut the bitter quip that Ireland is "a home for men rather than a breeding ground for emigrants and bullocks." The country's rapturous huzzas for John Kennedy were more than an expression of pride in a Gael made good -to many young Irishmen...
...Bridge. As the man who has done most to end his country's long sleep, Sean Lemass got his chance when he took over as Taoiseach...