Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the Communists won one of their few victories: knocking down three early-model Australian Meteor jets and one U.S. F-80, and losing only two MIGs. Cease-fire and lull were two words that airmen on both sides could not hear and did not heed...
...Stork Club, in Paris, on the Riviera and in London's West End, everybody who was anybody knew Freddy McEvoy. Born to obscurity, the tall, handsome, 44-year-old Australian had the gift of making friends, news, money, and marrying heiresses. His feats of derring-do on the high seas, in the game-filled jungles of Africa and on the icy ski runs of Switzerland gave the international set a vicarious sense of adventure, and earned him the nickname Suicide Freddy. His zesty approach to business matters-he launched the fashion of flowered shirts for men by selling...
Although alert to the Red threat, the Australian people, in his opinion, show none of the hysteria Tipping finds in the United States. A constitutional amendment to outlaw the Communist Party was opposed by none other than Herbert Evatt, first president of the General Assembly. "Evatt risked political suicide by defending the Reds' rights, but the amendment was roundly defeated by the people...
Tipping has found two aspects of Harvard that Australian universities lack--the House system and the Saturday football show. "We'd build Houses if we could afford it, but we could never take your football. I went to the Dartmouth game, and I'm still in a bloody daze. It's not the players so much but the daffy crowd. All the ballyhoo and cheering and such. But I guess that's what's meant by American spirit...
...rugger forays are in the offing. Vice-president Brad Lundborg is trying to arrange one of them which involves a flying visit to California sometime next term. Stanford and U.C.L.A. have invited an Australian International Touring team to visit them, and suggested that the Crimson participate...