Word: valera
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...with Oscar, Fangio's car overturned. Gálvez raced on, not stopping to help. (Fangio cracked up on the next leg, killing his mechanic.) One Buenos Aires paper, cheering Oscar on, ran a headline: CAN ANYTHING STOP HIM? The foggy, mountainous road between Cúcuta and Valera couldn't. At times, he could not see two yards ahead - and going straight instead of following a sudden turn meant plunging over a cliff. At Valera, Oscar had a commanding 2½-hour lead over his brother, who had a comfortable lead over the third man. Then...
...Eamon de Valera, no longer Prime Minister of Eire but still a popular Irishman in the U.S., arrived in New York with a full schedule before him. He had accepted with pleasure an invitation to the celebrations of both San Francisco and Los Angeles on St. Patrick's Day, would also attend the annual St. Patrick's Day banquet of Chicago's Irish Fellowship Club, postponed until March 20 so that he would be able to make...
After 16 years of rule, solemn old Eamon de Valera was out. In the Dail, longtime Dev-baiting Deputy James Dillon declaimed: "Thanks...
Irishmen here & there gave their opinions. Said Man-of-Letters Oliver St. John Gogarty, in Manhattan: "There's not much humor in the man Costello, but then there was not much humor in De Valera either." James Dillon might make up for that. Dillon, who used to say that Dev's agricultural policy was "no eggs, no poultry, no bacon, and damned little of anything else," became Costello's Minister for Agriculture. Arch-Nationalist Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta joined the coalition, became Minister for External Affairs...
There were some independents to swell the anti-De Valera ranks: irreverent, foxy Shopkeeper James Dillon, whose only program for years had been to heckle Dev from the floor of the Dail, and a certain bonesetter who asked re-election on the grounds that he mended all limbs gratis regardless of party affiliation. But the best the combined opposition could hope for seemed to be reducing Dev's majority to a mere plurality, and further confound an increasingly confused government. In that case Dev, who refused to consider joining a coalition, might resign, but the chances of forming...