Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Untouched by professional coaching. Dave Stephens has copied his style from the great Czech Emil Zatopek. During the World Youth Festival at Bucharest in 1953, the two men became friends. An unspectacular performer at Bucharest, Stephens came home and began to break Australian records right and left. Often the races were run in foul weather, and often Dave ran barefoot. He could not afford track shoes...
Last week in Melbourne, a slim, strong-willed Australian showed that he had found a simple answer: beat the Reds at their own game, and train harder than they do. Amateur Dave Stephens, 25, a professional milkman, ran away from Hungary's somber Sandor Iharos in a 3-mile exhibition race. His 25-yd. victory in 13:37.6 was no fluke. Only four days before, the "Flying Milkman" beat the holder of five world records- by the same margin in a 5,000-meter...
Born. To Lewis Hoad, 21, Australian Davis Cup star, and Jennifer Staley, 21, one of Australia's topflight women tennis players: their first child, a daughter; in Melbourne. Name: Jane...
...really has no idea that, long before Mr. Molotov's incredible announcement (on June 14, 1941) warnings of a German attack on Russia were being put out by "the forces arrayed against the Soviet Union and the Great German Reich," Indians were fighting and dying alongside British, Australian, French and other comrades to protect Egypt and the Arab world and to set Ethiopia free. An obscure party employee in those days, [Khrushchev] was probably never allowed to know that Stalin did not even acknowledge Mr. Churchill's repeated warnings of the impending Nazi attack. A devout ignoramus today...
...talkative bird is the Australian cockatoo (katkatoö), who so nearly resembles the Australian politico on the hustings that cartoonists often represent the one by the other. Last month, facing up to their fifth general election in six years, Australians wearily resigned themselves to a prolonged burst of cockatoo talk, and the sight of sulphurous crests raised in simulated alarm and indignation over the state of the nation. What they got instead was a beak-and-claw fight that made the political feathers fly as they had not done for a decade...