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...course, anyone who looks at Corry's book as a kind of Hibernian Roots is bound for a disappointment. The Murrays and McDonnells were simply not typical Irish-American families--none of Tom Murray's descendants would even look at a blue collar unless it buttoned down and didn't clash with a neatly striped tie. Up in the rarefied atmosphere of the really big money, strange things can happen, even to a family bent on preserving its heritage; and sometimes the Irish rich acted more rich than Irish. Such conditions could never produce a conventional saga of Irish Catholicism...
...aftermath of the election, Ved Mahta, an Indian journalist, wrote in the New Yorker that a dictator should never call elections unless he has taken care to rig the results. But Gandhi miscalculated in calling for parliamentary elections. Now India has 81-year-old Morarji Desai as Prime Minister, and Gandhi returns to private life after 11 years in power...
Primarily, to prevent a nuclear war between the two superpowers. Most Western strategic analysts believe that neither American nor Soviet leaders -assuming they are of sound mind -would order a surprise attack unless they were certain that the other side's capacity for a devastating nuclear counterstrike could be destroyed) By limiting the development and deployment of certain weapons, SALT negotiators have tried to preserve the strategic balance so that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could launch an atomic retaliation even after suffering a massive, surprise "first strike." In a sense, SALT aims at keeping the American...
...know why the Army would even want me, unless it's to prove a point," said Baugh, who must serve the one month and 22 days remaining in his military obligation. Meanwhile, his old company now allows members to wear wigs. Concedes Major General James Brooks, commander of the Idaho National Guard: "The volunteer force isn't going to make it unless we bend a little...
...again. As John McLucas, the outgoing head of the Federal Aviation Administration, told TIME Aviation Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, "We cannot say that it's impossible for a situation like Tenerife to occur in the U.S. But we can say we are doing everything possible to prevent such a situation?unless somebody screws...