Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After warming up with an easy 1,500-meter freestyle victory at the A.A.U. national indoor swimming championships in New Haven, Australian Olympian Murray Rose, 18, felt so relaxed that he forgot to count the laps when he kicked off next night in the 22O-yd. grind. With only 20 yds. left to go, Murray, now a Southern California freshman, suddenly realized the race was almost over. He thrashed up to full speed, just managed to come up from third to touch out his countryman and collegemate, Jon Henricks. in a meet-record...
Adult platypuses are set in their ways, so Fleay decided to catch young ones and condition them to human company before committing them to The Bronx. During the breeding season, female platypuses dig long tunnels into the banks of Australian streams, and lay their soft eggs in leaf-lined chambers at the ends. When the young platypuses hatch, they grow fast and fat by licking the milk that exudes from pores on their mother's belly. They begin to come out of their burrows in January and start life on their...
Double Splash. After getting a rare permit from the Australian government to catch platypuses, which are rigidly protected, Fleay made 22 sorties from his home in West Burleigh, Queensland. Tramping along the streams in a moving cloud of mosquitoes, he watched for the ripples stirred by swimming platypuses and listened for the characteristic double splash they make when they hit the water. In likely places he set funnel-mouthed box traps, caught a few adult platypuses and lots of eels and catfish...
Born. To Lew Hoad, 23, Australian pro tennis star, and Jennifer Hoad, 23: their second child, second daughter; in Melbourne. Weight...
Barely thawed out from a five-month antarctic expedition. Australian-born Explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins felt it was time to leave New York and to head for his Montrose, Pa. home. Lady Wilkins put off the new expedition, objected that Montrose was too cold and too bogged down in snow, revealed that her bearded husband, who has been shuttling between the North and South Poles since 1913. "doesn't like cold weather and never...