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...first it was just a couple of rowdy vendors who broke from the line leading into the stadium. They yelled about how Nilon Brothers, the local concessionaires, had been doing some routine exploiting--not letting the vendors in on time to sell a few rounds before the National Anthem, making them work without a contract since the early days of spring and not giving them a place to change from street clothes to pajama-blue vendor coats...
...life a little more comfortable, however, the government is planning to let in its first tourists-in moderation of course. Up to now, Bhutan's chief money earner abroad has been the sale of its colorful postage stamps, some of which are miniature LPs with the Bhutanese national anthem recorded on them...
...first acts as Prime Minister was to begin still another search for a new song more befitting "our national aspirations." Although the government offered a prize of $14,850 to the winner, none of the thousands of entries was thought worthy of a kangaroo lullaby, let alone a national anthem. In desperation, the government turned to three golden oldies: Song...
Australia, Advance Australia Fair and Waltzing Matilda (an uplifting dirge about the suicide of a sheep rustler). A choice was made by a poll (in which one-half of 1% of the population was selected to represent the nation as a whole). Advance Australia Fair was chosen as the anthem by a bare majority...
...typical reaction, the Melbourne Herald said: "All together now, wince." Annoyed by the criticism, a spokesman for the Prime Minister stiffly replied that it was the tune that counted and the words hardly mattered. But they clearly do matter to many Australians, and the choice of the new anthem seemed to unleash the country's lyrical genius. One sardonic proposal, set to the tune of My Old Man's a Dustman, came from Phillip Adams, who writes a satirical column for a Melbourne paper...