Word: australia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behalf of the people of Australia, I would like to thank your President for his generous gesture on short notice in attending the funeral of our late Prime Minister, Mr. Harold Holt [Dec. 29]. The messages of condolence from your Government and the people of your great nation at such a time is an inspiration to the people of Australia. There are still people and indeed nations in this world that from time to time do appreciate the generosity and the repeated acts of good will that generate from your great country...
Back home in Australia, Holt was just as steady. He pushed industrial and natural-resource development programs that are now raising the country's gross national product by 9% a year; he also made Australia a major world supplier of iron ore, bauxite and alumina, as well as stepping up production of the copper, lead, zinc and coal that it has long produced. By the early 1970s, the government expects to be exporting $1 billion worth of minerals alone (v. $430 million last year...
...Liberal job. Among the chief candidates: Immigration Minister Billy M. Sneddin, 42, Deputy Defense Minister Allen Fair-hall, 58, External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, 62, Labor and National Service Minister Leslie H. Bury, 54, and Education Minister John G. Gorton, 56. In the end, it was a tribute to Australia-and to Holt-that overall government policy itself will probably shift little, either under McEwen or his Lib eral successor. Above all, McEwen promised last week that he would stand behind Holt's commitment to Viet...
...Australia is off and moving, and neither the Liberals nor the Country Party seems much inclined to tamper with a winning formula...
Until The Man Who Loved Children was republished to considerable acclaim in 1965, Australia's Christina Stead was relatively little known and appreciated in the U.S. The four novellas in The Puzzleheaded Girl should firmly establish her reputation as a writer who can make the familiar meaningful without gimmickry. It is not without some reason that her work has been compared to that of Nabokov and Isak Dinesen. Her essential theme in The Puzzleheaded Girl is rootlessness. Her characters are continually trying to flee themselves. Europeans come to America only to find that they and their new country...