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...roster. Political events of 1949 gave the I.R.A. a new life. In that year, the government in Dublin proclaimed the old Irish Free State a republic and took it out of the Commonwealth. Britain's Parliament promptly passed the Ireland Act, which has ever since been the mainstay of Protestant determination to maintain the ties with London. Under the act, Ulster remains a British province with its own Parliament, until Stormont chooses to unite the six counties with those of the South?which, of course, it defiantly chooses...
Emanuel Ekama and Norie Harrower played most of the game for the first time since Penn. Both were playing at less than full strength, however, and the team's mainstay at midfield was Russ Bell...
Yankees Go Home. Now, however, Thailand's economic climate is turning out to be misty and clouded. The economy is troubled by dropping prices and softening demand for some of its main export items, including tin and rubber. Rice exports, the mainstay of the economy, have been especially poor, largely because Asia's "green revolution" has made rice producers out of countries that formerly were importers. Thailand, under the spell of Mai pen rai and the war boom, failed to diversify its economy. In consequence, the country has a bulging rice stockpile and growing trade deficit...
George Kennedy '21 is a journalist I'm particularly familiar with, as he wrote the "Rambler" column, a mainstay feature of one of my hometown papers (The Washington Evening Star ), for several decades. Harold Guinzburg, who died in 1961, is the publisher who founded the still flourishing Viking Press as well as the Literary Guild of America...
...described in the latest U.S. Dictionary of Occupational Titles, and 82 million are working at them. But it is hard to fit man to title. As a purely practical matter, college students would be well advised to study the Labor Department's biennial Occupational Outlook Handbook, the mainstay of any careers counselor. It points out, for example, that the elementary-teaching field threatens to become overcrowded, but the outlook is better for teachers of the handicapped and of children in both urban ghettos and rural districts. It also describes other kinds of work like oceanography, which will be used...