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...Phalangist gunmen. In their assault on the National Liberals last week, the Phalangists seized and burned the home of Dany Chamoun, the son of the party leader and the commander of the group's militia. Dany was not home at the time, but the Phalangists kidnaped his Australian-born wife Patty and daughter Tracy, 17, and held them for several hours before surrendering them to the Red Cross...
DIED. Marjorie Lawrence, 71, Australian-born soprano who resumed her career in a wheelchair after being stricken by infantile paralysis in 1941; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence specialized in Wagnerian roles and after her illness made a triumphant comeback at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943 singing Venus in Tannhauser while seated on a divan. She detailed her struggles with illness in her 1949 autobiography, Interrupted Melody, and in subsequent years taught opera at several U.S. colleges...
...aluminum gallium arsenide (which they doped) and gallium arsenide (which they left pure). They reasoned that any electrons donated by the impurity would tend to migrate to the adjoining undoped gallium arsenide layer because of their tendency to seek what physicists call a lower energy state. Explains the Australian-born Dingle: "It's rather like the inclination of water to flow downhill." The new design worked. Isolated from the obstructing impurities in the alternate layers, electrons flowed at unprecedented velocities through the gallium arsenide layers: nearly twice as fast at room temperatures, and as much as 20 times...
...post has been a touchy one ever since Governor General Sir John Kerr, in order to break a parliamentary deadlock in 1975, used long dormant powers to sack Conservative Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and call for new elections. Kerr last year resigned, turning the job over to the Australian-born academic Sir Zelman Cowen. But after Cowen has had another four or five years in office, says a source close to Buckingham Palace, the Queen would like to appoint Charles to the position...
...scene from Some Like It Hot? The Seven Year Itch? Actually, that familiar sultry smile belongs to Linda Kerridge, 23, an Australian-born model whose role in an upcoming movie called Star$ shows she can give a pretty convincing imitation of Marilyn Monroe. In the film, Kerridge works in a Hollywood pleasure house where the women look like famous movie stars. Off-camera, Kerridge has little in common with M.M. "Marilyn was wonderful, but very lonely, without family, without roots," says Kerridge. "I will not have the same problem...