Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conants spent about ten days in Sydney, Australia, before going to Canberra on July 25 for the Jubilee Seminar of the Australian National University, held in connection with the 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia...
...Conants spent about ten days in Sydney, Australia, before going to Canberra on July 25 for the Jubilee Seminar of the Australian National University, held in connection with the 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia...
...sellout crowd of 13,000 jammed into the West Side Tennis Club stadium at Forest Hills last week for the semifinals of the national championship tournament; the biggest U.S. tennis gallery since 1946 was primed for white-hot competition. One bracket pitted Australian Frank Sedgman against Art Larsen, the flashy, unpredictable U.S. champ; the other match paired husky Dick Savitt, who had earned his No. 1 seeded position by knocking off the Australian and Wimbledon titles, against Vic Seixas, flashing the best play of his five-year career...
...three ensuing months in Australia gave him a fine postgraduate course. In the Australian championship, after beating wily Veteran John Bromwich in the quarterfinals, Savitt faced two-time Champion Sedgman in the semi-final bracket. The match went to five sets, and in the fifth, Sedgman spurted to a 4-2 lead. Savitt, always tense when he's ahead, simply relaxed and began hitting winners, won four straight games and the match. In the final, against rangy Ken McGregor, "I felt that nothing could stop me." McGregor couldn't. Dick won handily...
...Taken, this week, from the U.S. when Sedgman & McGregor and Don Candy & Mervyn Rose made it an all-Australian final...