Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweeping through a French-run rubber plantation called Binh Ba, 42 miles southeast of Saigon, looking for an ene my force that had mortared the Aussies' main headquarters, a 150-man company of the Royal Australian Regiment's 6th Battalion stumbled onto an estimated two Viet Cong battalions. In the first withering exchange of gunfire, all twelve men of the Australian leading group were killed or wounded. As a torrential rain began to fall, the Communists sought to tighten a noose around the Aussie company, charged in human-wave attacks that were repeatedly beaten back. The fighting...
...BEGIN? by Rudolph Brasch. An Australian rabbi has collected an intellectual's compendium of trivia dealing with the origins of countless things from trouser cuffs to Caesarean births to soap. The effect is as irresistible as peanuts at a party...
These tidbits, as irresistible as peanuts at a party, are among the hundreds of facts assembled by an engagingly unstuffy Australian Reform rabbi in this intellectual's compendium of trivia. Among his findings...
...little charade was Brabham's way of thumbing his nose at Dutch and British sportswriters who have taken to calling him the grand old man of auto racing. At 40, Australian Brabham is the oldest driver on the Grand Prix circuit. When he first arrived in 1955, determined to make a name for himself amid the sophisticates of European racing, Brabham had more lead in his foot than skill in his hands. Watching him hurtle recklessly around the track, his fellow drivers would not have given a plugged sixpence for his chances of success-or survival. "The marvelous thing...
...going to be a long, hot summer with rioting in the East Wing," groaned Elizabeth Carpenter as she looked forlornly forward to Luci Baines Johnson's August wedding. As Lady Bird's press secretary, Liz has cause to worry. All the world's journalists, from the Australian Consolidated Press to an editor of the student paper at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia, want to come to the affair. Turning most of them down is tough enough; saying no to assorted requests from reporters who have been invited is honing her tongue. How about telephones...