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...Regarding "The Rich-Back to the Ould Sod" [June 28] perhaps the most conspicuous Mellon by his absence from the family's rendezvous was Larimer W. Mellon Jr., who, as a physician, dedicated, built and for the past twelve years has run the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti along with his wife Gwen. Larry Mellon's forte has been in giving all of his monies away to a hospital cen ter dedicated to the care of over 300,000 patients in a rural setting who otherwise would be without this resource. He is my nominee...
...Permit from Sod. "Listen, America," said Sterling Tucker, the march's coordinator, in an emotional address before the giant, brooding figure of Lincoln. "Hear our anguished cries. We are admitting that we are poor. But we are also giving warning. We will not remain poor. We will not remain depressed, repressed or oppressed." Added Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League: "This may be the last march which is non violent and which brings blacks and whites together. The nation and the Congress must listen to us now before it is too late-before the prophets...
Northern Ireland can and does take considerable pride in its emigrant sons. Davy Crockett's parents came from Ulster. So did the ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some 50 members of what is probably America's richest family gathered at the old family homestead -a clay-floored, thatch-roofed cottage near Omagh in County Tyrone...
Before long, Dunfey inns will have another feature. In August, when the entire 13-member clan jets to Dublin for a reunion on the ould sod, the family plans to recruit local barmaid talent to staff "Dunfey's Taverns," being set up in the family establishments...
...Britten-Norman Ltd. seems almost an anachronism. The airstrip at the company's plant near the resort town of Bembridge on Britain's Isle of Wight is nothing but a sod runway. The one plane that Britten-Norman builds carries ten people in a fuselage that even its designers admit is "just an aluminum rack." It has a high, slablike wing and a top speed of only 168 m.p.h. Yet low and slow as it flies, the Britten-Norman (BN-2) Islander, as it is called, has proved to be a soaring success...