Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Pilot Philip Blown, a veteran of the Royal Australian Air Force and one of the rescued: "The fighters stayed on our tail and took turns spraying the fuselage. They shot us down with the intention of killing us. When they got too near for good shooting, they throttled back and then began firing again...
...time the field reached Melbourne, it had dwindled to 134. Murray, whose car was rattling along on cracked shock absorbers and a twisted frame, jettisoned half a ton of equipment for the climb across the Australian Alps and home. Wearing rubber monkey masks as a final gag, he and his navigator, Bill Murray (no kin), dawdled through the mountains, stopped now and then to take movies, and rolled into the Sydney show ground last week easy winners. In 17 days on the road they were the only entrants who lost no points...
...press secretary to Australia's Labor Party leader, Herbert V. Evatt. young (26) ex-Reporter Fergan O'Sullivan achieved public and private recognition on the same day two months ago. In public, Australian newsmen voted to give him a silver mug for his help to the press during the Labor Party's unsuccessful election campaign this spring. In private, the government subpoenaed him to appear before an Australian royal commission investigating Soviet espionage...
...commission had become interested in O'Sullivan after Vladimir Petrov, a Russian embassy secretary in Canberra, surrendered to Australian authorities and began to talk (TIME, April 26). Petrov, an ex-colonel in the MVD, the Russian secret police, charged that O'Sullivan had been helpful to the MVD in Australia. Last week O'Sullivan's answer took Australian newsmen by surprise...
Helpful Dossiers. O'Sullivan admitted preparing "dossiers" on Australian newsmen and turning them over to a correspondent for Tass, the official Russian news agency and cover-up for Moscow's international agents. The dossier on one reporter said: "[He is] drinking himself to abnormality; probably originally a Protestant, not now practicing, married, promiscuous." On another: "[This reporter] also probably holds security job, drinks, married." The dossiers went to Moscow by diplomatic pouch, said Petrov...