Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarterfinals he polished off Australia's hardhitting Davis Cupman Lew Hoad; in the semi-finals his booming service disposed of American Budge Patty (who had already knocked out Defending Champion Vic Seixas). In the finals, he found himself up against Ken Rosewall, a crafty, speedy and young (19) Australian, fresh from a five-set victory over top-seeded Tony Trabert...
...Trade Minister. C. D. Howe warned that more price cuts would be made if necessary. Wheat trading slowed to a halt in England and other European markets. Argentina's Minister of Economic Affairs Alfredo Gomez Morales charged the U.S. with "dumping." Said Sir John Teasdale, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board: the cuts could result in "a repetition of the depression story when a similar price...
...iron Bob. The campaign was one of the dirtiest in Australia's 53 years of responsible self-government. Menzies, an able politician with a handsome, Warren G. Harding look, was not on speaking terms with his principal opponent, Herbert ("Doc") Evatt, the stocky, ambitious leader of Australian Labor. Both are from New South Wales, the sons of country shopkeepers, born in the same year (1894) and both able lawyers. But Evatt accused Menzies of being the tool of "trusts and combines," and Menzies fought back with charges of "disgraceful, shameful, mercenary bidding for votes...
...Muirfield, Scotland, Doug Bachli became the first Australian ever to win the British Amateur Golf Championship. Playing a steady, nerveless game, the 34-year-old teetotalling saloon owner came from behind to catch American Walker Cup Player Bill Campbell and beat him 2 and 1 in the 36-hole final round...
Among the 1,000 newsmen covering the Geneva Conference last week was London and Manhattan Communist Daily Worker Correspondent Wilfred Burchett. Australian-born Correspondent Burchett was last seen by Western newsmen in Korea, where he worked as a Red propagandist, helped get "confessions" from prisoners and covered the war and truce negotiations from the Communist side (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951). In Geneva he left little doubt he was still on the same side. Wrote Burchett this week: "[The Communist] plan . . . for ending the war in Indo-China burst like a bombshell on the American and French delegation. It dissipated...