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Four Rs. Today's expansion would not have been possible if Sean Lemass had not started laying the groundwork long ago. Lemass is the great-grandson of a hatter who landed in Dublin in 1820. A young-appearing 63, he is by age, if not by political style, a member of the generation that freed Ireland and has ruled it ever since. At school, he learned his four Rs-in the Dublin of 50 years ago, revolution was part of the curriculum-and by the age of 14 had joined the Republican Na Fianna Eireann, a sort...
...Cross-Up. The first consists of gradually increasing the time between engagements; if the established home-and-home rhythm for the exchange of dinners has been, say, two weeks, let four weeks go by before asking the Weedees back-then six. The Cross-Up involves preliminary groundwork. Find out when the Weedees have theater tickets, and ask them to dinner that night. This has the added advantage of ostensibly discharging the social obligation without actually going through with...
...first projects they initiated was a voter registration campaign in Terrell County, Ga., which laid the groundwork for the popular movement that brought Martin Luther King and other integration leaders to Albany last summer...
...more the I.P.C. offered, the more Kassem asked. Last October, crying ''we shall rid ourselves of wickedness," Kassem finally broke off the talks, revoked all I.P.C. concessions save those covering 740 sq. mi. in which the company was currently producing oil. Then he began laying the groundwork for last week's establishment of a national oil company...
...right of the U.S. to use force-if needed-in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine. Secretary of State Dean Rusk talked, mainly about Cuba, to some 40 foreign ministers from all over the world as they gathered at the United Nations in New York. Rusk also laid the groundwork for an informal meeting this week in which he could zero in on just the Latin American foreign ministers. There was vague talk of stepped-up surveillance of Communist military activity in the Caribbean and tougher economic sanctions against Cuba, in each case through collective hemisphere action...