Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tiger teammates to a World Series victory. But our best witness for the defense has got to be America's Cup Yachtsman Bus Mosbacher, who was on our cover in August 1967. A few weeks later, he sailed Intrepid to four straight victories for the U.S. over Australian Challenger Dame Pattie. And guess what Bus had pasted below decks to Intrepid's bulkhead? That's right. TIME'S cover...
...boom was set off by a small but promising nickel find in the sand and spinifex of Western Australia. It attracted particular attention because of the worldwide nickel shortage, made worse this summer when Canadian nickel miners went on strike. A tiny Australian mining company called Poseidon started the speculative mania late in September. A drill on its 1,100-acre lease in desolate Windarra churned up traces of nickel ore. After the company announced assays of 3.5% nickel, its stock, which had sold earlier in the year for 50? a share, jumped to $35. "In sober fact...
Good Lesson. None of the criticism seemed to ruffle Rupert Murdoch, the hustling, young (38) Australian who last January added the News of the World to the seven papers he owns Down Under. After he and his wife Anna read Christine's manuscript, Murdoch paid ?20,000 for serialization rights, describing Christine's recounting as "a good lesson to all politicians." A frontpage story accompanying the first installment carried the justification further. Noting that "an ex-King of England" and four Prime Ministers had written their memoirs, it reasoned that "what is good for those...
...South Africa's apart heid prompted Poland and Czechoslovakia to withdraw, and the Great Britain-South Africa series was marred by riots. After Spain had been eliminated, the country's outstanding player, Manuel Santana, was convicted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. The Rumanians, coached by wily Australian Harry Hopman, stirred some interest by out lasting 49 other nations to become the first Communist country to compete in the Cup finals...
Shamateurism. The most lamentable aspect of this year's Davis Cup challenge was that, although the Rumanians were basically a sound and well-coached team, they had no business reaching the finals in the first place. The ideal Cup match would have pitted an Australian team of Rod Laver, Tony Roche and John Newcombe against the U.S.'s finest. But in the peculiar stratification of tennis players, the Australian stars are classified as full-fledged professionals (as opposed to "players" like Ashe, who may compete for money but are not under professional contract to any organization). Last July...