Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheme of individual rotation. Now, the division is preparing to integrate Koreans into their units, in the same fashion as the American KATUSA (they will be called KATCOMS). In the present resi-and-training phase, the division is composed of three brigades, one Canadian, one Scottish-English, one mainly Australian, and other smaller units, including a New Zealand artillery regiment. The Canadians and Anzacs are all volunteers. They are commanded by Major General Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West, who prefers to be known as Mike West...
...standards in all six Australian breaststroke events came shortly after. Finally, last January, he qualified for the Olympics...
Seldom downed, and never under-rated is Australian swim star Dave Hawkins. During the past season he broke Yardling records in almost every race he swam...
...Australia. Hawkins is the youngest swimmer to win a breaststroke event in the British Empire Games; he placed a creditable tenth in the 200-meter breaststroke in the 1952 Olympics, breaking the 1948 record with a time of 2:39.8. In between these victories, he managed to break every Australian breaststroke mark...
...North Sydney High, Hawkins kept the record book reviser busy. In his fourth and fifth years (Australian high schools work on a unique five-year system). Hawkins swam in up to five events per meet, and won nine inter school championship meets practically by himself...