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Americans thrilled to the individual victories of Figure Skaters Carol Heiss and David Jenkins, but it was an acrobatic goalie named Jack McCartan and an underdog U.S. hockey team that won their hearts. McCartan had 39 saves
...periods, they were visited in their dressing room by the Soviet team captain, who urged them to take oxygen. With Roger Christian of Minnesota firing in three goals (he scored four on the day), the Americans roared back in the final period to win, 9-4. "The big joke," McCartan recalls, "was that the guys who didn't take the oxygen were the ones who scored the goals...
...systematic terror began in October 1972, when Hamilton's nephew, James Patrick McCartan, a Catholic, was dragged from a wedding party by members of a still legal Protestant vigilante force, the Ulster Defense Association. A pathologist's report and the confession of his killer indicate that McCartan was taken to a U.D.A. where he was battered in the face with pick handles, stabbed repeatedly, then hoisted by his ankles to a roof beam and dropped head first to the floor below -all in an apparent effort to gain information. McCartan, his killer said, groaned out the names...
...March Hospital Guard David Glennon, 45, a Catholic cousin of Mrs. Hamilton, was found shot in the head. On New Year's Day, another Catholic cousin, John Whyte, 24, a laundry presser, was shot dead by a sniper. Lily Hamilton was saying good night to her brother, Noel McCartan, 26, a laborer, when a gunman fired two quick bursts and Noel fell dying in front...
Seamus O'Neill, professor of History and English at Ireland's Carysford Teachers College, is currently engaged in translating his latest novel from Gaelic into English. He wrote the book (Mary McCartan in Gaelic as part of a strong movement in Ireland to preserve the Gaelic language, a movement which is supported by almost all Irish writers of today, including Brendan Behan, Liam O'Flaherty, Michael MacLiammhoir and others. All of these writers have produced works in Gaelic, and some write only in Gaelic. In addition to native Irish literature, quite a large amount of literature from other countries...