Word: australia
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...enough. Since Pius IX (1846-78), all the Popes have urged the rank & file of Catholics to the front lines-through Catholic Action, defined as "lay participation in the apostolate of the hierarchy." Last week the Church's outstanding lay expert on Catholic Action, Paul McGuire of Adelaide, Australia, was in the U. S. on a coast-to-coast lecture tour, to expound the lay apostolate under the auspices of the Knights of Columbus-itself an excellent example of Catholic Action...
Forest fires in the State of Victoria, southeastern Australia, fanned by high winds, last week became a Commonwealth calamity. Thousands of miles of timberland were burned black. The fires raged in some areas on 40-mile fronts. In Melbourne, sweating under a temperature of 114° (see p. 29), smoke came down so thick that visibility was limited to a block. It was dark by 3 p.m. in the country. Much of Melbourne's watershed was devastated, increasing the probability that water consumption, already restricted because of the drought, would have to be further cut down...
...have produced temperatures of 11,000° F., roughly the surface temperature of the sun. By alternately magnetizing and demagnetizing certain precooled salts, scientists have reached temperatures only a tiny fraction above absolute zero, −459.72° F. But hundreds of scientists assembled for a science congress in Canberra, Australia's capital, last week could do precisely nothing to alter a summer temperature of 108° in the shade...
This institution, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, has had nearly 9,000,000 visitors since it was opened 40 years ago. Today there are some 50 imitators in the U. S.. Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Japan...
Other countries represented include Alaska, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Guatemala, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Roumania, Siam, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, Vonezuela, and Wales...