Word: australian
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Lately he has learned to hang on for the kill. Since July, when he got to the semifinals at Wimbledon before losing to Australian Pro Rod Laver, Ashe has won 26 straight matches, two of them in Davis Cup play against Spain. Last month he beat Bob Lutz to take the U.S. Amateur title...
Shipping can be a hard-knuckled business, but never had the Australian Tonnage Committee, a group of 15 shipping companies involved in Europe-Australia trade, heard such a barefisted challenge. Dropping in at the committee's London office recently, N. I. ("Nicky") Zuev, vice president of the Soviet Union's ship-chartering agency Sovfracht, was in a vile mood. He complained that the committee, which is made up of shipping operators from eight countries, had unfairly treated the Russians, then warned: "Now we're going...
...stake in the London confrontation are shipping revenues of about $192 million a year, which are now shared by the Italian, French, West German, Dutch, Scandinavian and British lines that form the in-group serving trade routes between Europe and Australia. Last year the Russians sent six ships to Australian ports to pick up 146,000 tons of wool destined for the Soviet Union. Bargaining for a bigger piece of the action this time, they have proposed to run 36 round trips a year to Australia. That would be enough to take a third of the entire Australian trade, worth...
...that were filed by the correspondents, a 227-page convention report was organized into book form and transmitted to New York for Cover Writer Larry Barrett and the rest of the Nation staff to coordinate with their own notes. For illustration, British Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe flew from London, and Australian Cartoonist Pat Oliphant took time off from his job with the Denver Post to record their impressions of the convention for TIME...
Thomas Keneally, 32, is an Australian with a pronounced Irish accent. He has found the mythic frame for his novel in the love, rebellion and death of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony that might have been Sydney, but was historically Port Jackson, 200 years ago. Young Halloran is a corporal and Roman Catholic who has sworn his conscript's oath to the English and Protestant King, George III. He was once destined for the priesthood, and has a Latinate and God-bedazzled turn of mind. Now he guards felons, argues theology with...