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...Cork airport. They were met by Prime Minister Jack Lynch and a band of other officials, who hastily assembled to welcome their illustrious guest. The De Gaulles then left by police-escorted limousine for the tiny village of Sneem in County Kerry. There, in a secluded bit of southwestern Ireland, where the Gulf Stream's warm waters nourish subtropical vegetation, the couple had rented a small twelve-room third-class hotel called, the Heron Cove. Normally frequented by hikers and artists, it commands a sweeping view of Kenmare Bay from its 100-acre grounds...
...expressing the country's feeling of nostalgia and affection as the simple, spontaneous turnouts along the tracks. In Charleston, W. Va., nearly 600 people, including children in pajamas and blankets, watched the train go by. In Washington, Ind., a small (pop. 11,000) farming town in the southwestern part of the state, 10,000 people gathered from as far away as 50 miles to greet the train as it stopped to change crews. Some put their hands to their hearts, but most just watched silently when the baggage car, bearing a length of crape and an American flag, came...
...tronauts managed to send back some spectacular views of the earth - from a distance of 207,000 miles. Jim Lovell acted as commentator of the show. "In the center," he explained, "is South America - all the way down to Cape Horn. I can see Baja California and the Southwestern part of the U.S. There is a big cloud bank going northeast of the U.S. It appears now that the East Coast is cloudy. I can see clouds over parts of Mexico, and parts of Central America are clear...
Wipe Out. During its first 100 years or so, the U.S. economy was supported by European capital. Europeans bankrolled Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase ($11 million), and European financiers were principal backers of the railroads and the steel, petroleum, mining, cotton and Southwestern cattle industries. The European stake in the U.S. peaked at $7 billion in 1914, but it took two world wars to all but wipe it out. German plants in the U.S. were confiscated in both world wars. Other Europeans sold off their U.S. holdings to raise cash for their war efforts...
...wife, Actress (The Honeymooners) Audrey Meadows,* have already bought their retirement spot: a ranch in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Predictably, it has been named the Lazy Six. But the only seat-of-the-pants pioneer still running a major U.S. airline feels that he has many things to accomplish before he and Audrey can ride off into the sunset. For one thing, Six wants to be on hand for the day when Continental takes delivery of the three huge 747s that it has on order. "I'm the guy who took a look...