Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reception committee of vice squad sleuths and Australian customs men wait ed at Sydney Airport to greet Sir Eugene Goossens, 62, composer of 64 worthy musical works (e.g., The Apocalypse), conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since 1947 and maestro of the Cincinnati Symphony for 16 seasons before that. London-born Sir Eugene, thrice-married father of five daughters, was startled by such a homecoming after a European concert tour. So were his welcomers. The "prohibited imports" strewn through Goossens' luggage: some 1,100 "indecent" photographs, several naughty books and movie films, three strange rubber masks...
Hawkins and Fred L. Whipple, chairman of the Department of Astronomy, outlined the project before the convention of the American Astronomical Association. They explained that they hope to determine in what ways meteors affect humans and to check the accuracy of some of the current contentions concerning them. One Australian scientist maintains that meteors or meteor dust cause the aurora borealis and torrential rains...
Born. To Heather Menzies Henderson, 27, only daughter of Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies, and Peter Henderson, 27, attache at Australia's embassy in Djakarta: their first child, a daughter; in Canberra, Australia...
...shook the gilded spires and jeweled pagodas of many-templed Bangkok last week. In answer to the Thai government's invitation, SEATO nations were staging their first joint maneuvers to show how fast they could come to the aid of their ally. A task force of U.S., British, Australian and New Zealand warships knifed northward through the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Siam. Crisp and impressive, 650 Philippine infantrymen rolled ashore from a U.S. seaplane tender in the harbor. U.S. Globemasters and Flying Boxcars, lugging men and arms from Japan, came up like thunder across the South China...
...Less than 24 hours after she swam a world's record (5:06.7) 440-yd. free-style race at Sydney, Australia's Lorraine Crapp, 17, covered the distance once more, lowered the mark to 5:05.9. In the same pool another Australian youngster, Garry Chapman, 17, won the 220-yd. freestyle with a world record...