Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better part of two centuries, Australian elections have turned on such burning questions as the "kangaroo menace" or the cost of wool on the world market. Not so this week. As some 6,000,000 Australians go to the polls in the first federal election since 1963, no less an issue than Australia's role in Asia is at stake...
...slambang, month-long campaign between Liberal Prime Minister Harold Holt and his opposition challenger, Labor Party Leader Arthur Calwell, has focused the country's attention on the key question of Australia's participation in Viet Nam. Holt, 58, has committed Australian draftees to the war and Australian prestige to the containment of Asian Communism. Calwell, 70, demands an end to the draft, a pullback from Viet Nam and the votes of "600,000 Australian mothers whose boys could die or be wounded in the long, cruel, dirty...
False Chins. Haunted by memories of the pre-1950 hordes that stripped much of Australia of its vegetation and caused sheepherders and farmers an annual loss of half a billion dollars, Australian scientists are now desperately attempting to forestall another population explosion by rabbits-a pair of which, under moderate conditions, can be responsible for 9,000,000 descendants in three years...
Dead Fleas. Most Australian scientists are convinced that myxomatosis is still the best weapon against rabbits. Geneticist William Sobey, for one, is attempting to breed a more potent type of virus by combining existing strains. He has already produced some "interesting results" but needs lengthy field tests...
Suspecting that Australian mosquitoes now carry a relatively harmless strain of myxomatosis virus that imparts immunity to more deadly strains in the rabbits it infects, the geneticist has been seeking-another virus carrier. But his search has been plagued by misfortune. Impressed by the European flea, which has successfully spread myxomatosis over the Continent, he had some 12,000 fleas shipped to Australia. Only nine of the little pests withstood the trip...