Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...islanders want only one thing that phosphate cannot buy: independence. However, as Chief deRoburt de parted for Manhattan last week to report to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, Australian Territories Minister Charles Barnes conceded cautiously that as a first step toward sovereignty for the island, his government will draft a Nauruan constitution; next January the first Nauruan Parliament will convene. If Nauru proves ready for self-government, Barnes says elliptically, "Further discussions will take place regarding the possibility of further political progress." In other words, it is only a matter of time before Nauruans will be independent-provided the Australian government...
...families a kitty of $225 million by the time the phosphate runs out. Under the agreement, deRoburt, 42, more than trebled his people's royalties (to $1.50 a ton, retroactive to July 1, 1964) and extracted yet another price boost (to $1.97), effective next year. The Australian government, which administers the island as a U.N. trust territory, will hold most of the islanders' cash in trust until the time comes to move...
...eater." A true monster that grows to 35 ft. and possibly 8,000 Ibs., the white shark has devoured swimmers in such diverse locations as Matawan, N.J., the Gulf of Mexico, and Portsea, Australia. The rod-and-reel record is a 2,664-pounder landed by Australian Fruit Farmer Alf Dean in 1959. That was just a baby. Dean himself hooked into a bigger one that towed his 30-ft. launch 12 miles, finally broke loose after an epic 5½-hr. battle. Last year, off New York's Montauk Point, Captain Frank Mundus, a charter-boat skipper...
...last year by New Zealand's Peter Snell. The week before, Jazy turned a 3-min. 55.5-sec. mile, the seventh fastest in history, and topped that by setting a new European record of 13 min. 34.4 sec. in the 5,000 meters, only 8.6 sec. off Australian Ron Clarke's world mark. Late last week, trying again to break Clarke's record, he missed by only...
...Europe's lowest-price steelmakers (despite its lack of native iron or coal) by relying on coastal plants, American coal and ore from India, Liberia, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil. Aided by this reliance, Italian steel output has shot up 41% in seven years. A similar formula (Australian ore, coal from the U.S.) has made Japan's wholly seaside steel industry the world's No. 3 producer and a formidably competitive exporter from Detroit to Düsseldorf. This competition, anguishing to German and U.S. steelmen alike, may soon sharpen. Reason: even bigger ships now in the making...