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...AMERICAN IRISH by William V. Shannon. 458 pages. Macmillan...
...tailored to his personality. Some columnists, drawing comparisons with the large-scale televised conferences that Kennedy held in the State Department auditorium, thought that Johnson lacks the qualities for that sort of performance. "Although he has an alert mind," wrote New York Post Washington Columnist William V. Shannon, "he does not have Mr. Kennedy's blotting-paper memory for facts and details. He does not have Mr. Kennedy...
...Liffey salmon steaks, Irish coffee and Guinness stout. All the while, Irish jigs frolic over the intercom and the captain communicates in a bog-thickened brogue. Such blarney-and the practical advantage that the Irish government permits only state-owned Aer Lingus to land at Dublin as well as Shannon-last year accounted for earnings of $1,300,000 and a fourth year in the black on the transatlantic route...
...This may come as a shock to Pushinka, Charlie, Clipper, Shannon, Blackie and White Tips...
...Green Curtain," as Lemass calls it, reflects a growing cosmopolitanism in the universities and population centers. The Irish have made executives and technicians from more than a dozen countries resoundingly welcome. They cheered mightily for Schoolgirl Harumi Suzuki, eight-year-old daughter of a Japanese plant manager at Shannon, when she carried off first and third prizes for Irish poetry and Gaelic recitation. Young Ireland's horizons are being broadened by the foreign students who have been flocking to Irish universities, where they comprise nearly 17% of total enrollment; most come from Afro-Asian countries, where the distinctive accent...