Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the Israelis. Instead, Gorton has talked of pulling Australian troops home and creating a mobile "Israeli-type" citizens' army ready to leap into action anywhere in Southeast Asia on short notice. Washington considers such a "fortress Australia" policy a serious mistake, arguing that it would fail to meet Australia's defense needs while alienating the country's Asian neighbors, who depend on Australia's overseas garrisons, small though they are, to keep order. So far, the fortress concept remains only an idea in Gorton's mind. Washington hopes to convince him that, whatever happens...
...Instead, he saves all the normal male shoebill signs of affection- lowered head, lively clapping of the wooden-shoe-shaped bill, peculiar gulping noises -for his caretaker. Sometimes animal passions become actively embarrassing; recently, while a repairman was crouching in an emu's enclosure, the huge, ostrichlike Australian bird decided that the intruder was a female emu and behaved accordingly. At times the sexual play verges on the pathetic. "We have seen instances," says Hediger, who is also a professor of animal psychology and biology at Zurich University, "where tortoises have regarded the shoe of their keeper...
...answers Kafatos found in this project eventually presented him with a tailor-made system in which to pursue his old interest in cell differentiation. Through other scientists' research he found that different species of moths had various means of escaping from their cocoons. He found that, for example, one Australian species has a hard, pointed structure at the front of its head that it uses as a saw and that the caterpillar of one kind of silk moth leaves an exit hole when it builds the cocoon. The species Kafatos chose to work with, the Chinese Oak Silk Moth, however...
...reporter, Frank Palmos, 28, a freelance Australian journalist, escaped to tell the story. The group had been riding in a jeep around Saigon when they noticed a column of smoke rising above the Cholon section. Heading for the smoke, they soon found themselves moving through a stream of refugees fleeing the Viet Cong. Some tried to warn them with shouts of "V.C.! V.C.!", but they kept going until they arrived at an empty intersection-and then it was too late. Cantwell, who was driving, tried to put the jeep in reverse. Before he could, two Viet Cong opened fire. Palmos...
Married. Zoe Caldwell, 34, Australian actress, whose tempestuous performance in Broadway's current The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie earned her this year's Tony Award; and Robert Whitehead, 52, producer of the show (and of such stage hits as The Member of the Wedding, Bus Stop); she for the first time, he for the second; in Mechanicsville...