Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since a web-footed crew of Australians collected 14 of 23 gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics, the rest of the swimming world has faced up to an unhappy question: How and when can they ever catch up with the Aussies? While they ponder, the Australian Swimming Union is doing its best to aggravate the problem. The British Empire Games are a year away and the Rome Olympics are four years in the future, but this week the A.S.U. is already passing the hat among Aussie fans for $112,000 with which to recruit and train faster and flashier teams...
...Australian coaches have a good eye for talent, and an almost inexhaustible supply of it. Around Sydney in particular, half a dozen expert teachers have been remarkably successful in talking proud parents into paying for additional private lessons for their children. Once they take a professional interest in a prospective star, the coaches push the child into competition as soon as possible. Young Murray Rose, who won three Olympic gold medals and holds two free-style world records (400 meters and 440 yds.), is, at 18, a seven-year veteran of tough meets all over Australia. Lorraine Crapp, 19, winner...
...broke inside from the edge of the field, and the Crimson was a little slow getting across in defense. Four-letter man Mike White got the ball some five yards out, and fell just over the line with three Crimson ruggers hanging desperately on. Australian John Harrison made no mistake with the relatively easy kick...
Keith A. Hitchens 5G will study at the Ecole des Langues Orientales in Paris, Michael C. Lovell 2G, at the London Schools of Economics, and Julius M. E. Moravesik 4G at Oxford University. Brayton F. Wilson 1G will attend the Australian Forestry School in Canberra, and Thomas M. Woodward will study at the University of Paris...
...nation remains a partner of both Britain and the U.S. in SEATO. But Menzies, who last week set an Australian record in office (seven years and 106 days as Prime Minister), is not happy over U.S. policy in the Middle East, or what he regards as an American overdependence...