Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Liza Minnelli, 20, Judy Garland's songbird daughter; and Peter Allen, 23, Australian song-and-dance man; in Manhattan...
Mama Judy Garland was so charmed when she met Australian Singer Peter Allen three years ago that she immediately started matchmaking. Wouldn't Peter be perfect for her daughter, Liza Minnelli? Later Liza conceded: "I got so sick of hearing about him I really built up a complex against him." Peter felt the same way for a while, but Mama was right. The engagement was announced; then, just to be sure, Liza and Peter waited a full two years before marching into Manhattan's Municipal Building to obtain a marriage license. "We don't believe in jumping...
Tucked away near the bottom of the world, the island of Tasmania is an Australian state more or less renowned as the home of Errol Flynn and the Tasmanian wolf. Beyond that, it serves mainland Australia 150 miles to the north as a market garden, raising crisp fruits and vegetables on its tidy farms and in its verdant apple orchards. Inland from the quaint, Georgian-styled capital of Hobart (pop. 116,000) the island is windy and rugged, forested with towering oaks and giant eucalyptus trees, which rank among the world's tallest hardwoods. Last week those forests brought...
...Could Be." If the optimism had any visible attachment to fact, it was by a frail thread of innuendo spun by Hanoi's Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh in an interview with Newsman Wilfred Burchett, an Australian-born Communist, who has long been a mouthpiece for Asian Reds but has been more attuned to the Moscow line than to that of Peking. The key to Trinh's position was his well-hedged sentence: "It is only after the unconditional cessation of U.S. bombing and all other acts of war against the DRV [Democratic Republic of Viet Nam] that...
...billion has been expended on the man-in-space project alone, which amounts to 65-70% of the entire U.S. space budget. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) presently involves 400,000 workers, including 60,000 scientists and engineers. From the Cape's launching pads to Australian tracking stations, $3.6 billions worth of installations are spotted around the globe...