Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHOWTIME (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). British Comedian Dave Allen hosts an international variety hour. Guests include U.S. Comedian Frank Fontaine, British Vocalist Dusty Springfield and Comedian Max Wall, a Moroccan balancing act, Irish dancers and an Australian yodeler...
...startling series of upsets, seven of the top ten seeds were eliminated before the quarterfinals. Six of them were pros-and five of those six were beaten by amateurs. At the end, two Australian pros, Rod Laver (seeded No. 1) and Tony Roche (No. 15) turned back the amateurs' challenge and fought it out between themselves for the title, with Laver winning 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. But not even that all-pro final could alter the fact that in the main it was Amateur Week at Wimbledon...
First Since 1959. The busiest giant killers were a pair of bespectacled U.S. amateurs, Arthur Ashe and Clark Graebner. Ashe, ranked No. 13, polished off Okker and Australian Pro John Newcombe (No. 4); Graebner, who was unseeded, beat Aussie Pro Fred Stolle (No. 11) and Spain's Manuel Santana, who as No. 6 seed was the top-ranked amateur. Both advanced to the semifinals before losing-the first time since 1959 that two Americans had gone that...
...visual sightings of helicopters were made, and reconnaissance planes found no wreckage. But at about the same time as the U.S. response, several strange things happened. A U.S. Navy patrol boat was sunk off the DMZ by unidentified fire, the nearby Australian destroyer H.M.S. Hobart was holed in at least 200 places by what turned out to be three U.S. air-to-air Sparrow missiles, and three other vessels, including the cruiser U.S.S. Boston, reported that they had been fired...
...measure can be taken precisely in feet and inches, but he also has a far less exact psychological, or perceived, height. In the eye of the be holder, he may seem taller or shorter in direct proportion to his title or accomplishments. So says Australian Psychologist Paul R. Wilson in the Journal of Social Psychology...