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...PATCHWORK MOUSE...
County Armagh in Northern Ireland is a 512-sq. mi. patchwork of rocky grazing pastures whose southern tip juts 15 miles deep into the Irish Republic. This salient is populated by some 20,000 predominantly Roman Catholic farmers and dairymen, many of whom still resent the untidy mapwork that placed them in the British-ruled North rather than the independent South at the time of the 1921 partition. Armagh is a staging area for gunmen of the Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army (Provos), who frequently enter the country from sanctuaries in the Irish Republic to strike at British...
Overlooked by the Lincoln Memorial, the festival holds forth as a patchwork of Americana to show the nation's ethnic roots from abroad and their perpetuation in American history. The Smithsonian's scholars reject with a shudder the "melting pot" concept of America. They believe in an ethnically diverse, pluralistic nation to which scores of cultures have supplied the pieces that make up the American mosaic...
Last week New York's suspense story reached the melodrama stage as Mayor Abraham Beame went before TV cameras to unveil a "crisis" budget of $11.9 billion for fiscal 1976. A patchwork document hurriedly reproduced on copying machines by 150 clerks who worked through the night, the budget calls for dismissals of 37,315 city employees, or one-fourth of the total, including 12.5% of the police department, 2,304 firemen, 8,941 school employees and 2,882 sanitation men. That would come on top of 35,082 job eliminations planned under Beame's previous "austerity" budget...
...Look at this picture," he commands, his bulging, saucer eyes electric under the flu's rheumy glaze. "It's a wreck, a total wreck. But I think some of its qualities can still be appreciated, that I can help in our teaching." Slive is right. The canvas is a patchwork of flaking paint, but it's still--well--pleasing...