Word: australia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. One of Australia's leading writers tells a prickly story of a Brisbane family of intellectual pioneers who undergo a painful adjustment to a philistine society...
...SLOW NATIVES, by Thea Astley. One of Australia's leading novelists tells a prickly story of a Brisbane family of intellectual pioneers who undergo a painful adjustment to a philistine society...
...economy. For the first time in more than a decade, efforts have been made to balance the budget; but the austerity measures have not been completely successful. Later this month, Indonesia will have to make a bid for $325 million in aid from such creditors as the U.S., Britain, Australia and Japan. Unemployment is up to 3,000,000 from last year's 2,100,000, and 15 million people are underemployed. Rice last week cost twice the July price, obliging the government to order $85 million worth abroad...
...usually is a two-flag duel, with a lone challenger rising to face the U.S. every three years. Next time around, in 1970, the lineup for the right to challenge may resemble All the World's Fighting Fleets. Britain, France and Greece have already signaled battle, and now Australia's Sir Frank Packer, 60, has run up his flag, recommending that there be an elimination series of races among all challengers in Cup waters off Newport, R.I. The defending New York Yacht Club could do worse than take Sir Frank at his suggestion-and then stand back...
That was before last week, however, when Long and the Senate began to get flak from the anti-protectionist side. Angry protests poured in from Britain, Australia, Canada, Japan, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway and 14 Latin American nations. The six Common Market members sent six separate notes of protest. The complainers intimated that if the U.S. insisted on being protectionist, they would refuse to ratify the Kennedy Round agreement. Moreover, under present GATT regulations, they are free to put quotas of their own on imports from...