Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another visitor to the White House was Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, who delighted Lyndon Johnson by staunchly backing the U.S. stand. "Viet Nam is the frontier of freedom," said Menzies, who recently ordered 900 Australian troops to Viet Nam. "Abandonment would mean that country would be overrun by the North, and we can't have that...
...these nightmarish conditions will take tough, well-trained troops, and last week the U.S. and its allies were quietly preparing such a force. A token group of Australian infantrymen last week took station at Bienhoa airbase-part of a joint 1,000-man Australian-New Zealand contribu tion to the war effort. Two thousand South Koreans are already in Viet Nam, and Seoul still echoes with rumors of another 15,000-man South Korean combat force being readied for Viet Nam service...
...year, "all the time losing money like mad." The State Department spotted it and in 1962 sent it on a successful tour of the Far East. Then came three months in Australia, where its appearance was hailed as "the most stark and devastating theater ever presented on the Australian stage...
...volume of advertising is rising by about 15% a year. Last year it hit some $22 million in the Philippines, $26 million in Malaysia and $36 million in Hong Kong. Though most of the ad business is controlled by local, Japanese or Australian agencies, U.S. agencies are moving in fast. J. Walter Thompson has a staff of 100 in Manila alone, and Ted Bates & Co. has an interest in Hong Kong-based Cathay Advertising, which bills $4,000,000 throughout Southeast Asia. McCann-Erickson has opened offices in Manila and Hong Kong, and is starting up in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore...
...respect for his elders. The cocky, carrot-topped Aussie lefthander, then 24, was far from awed by the likes of Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall. After all, he was the first player since Don Budge in 1938 to achieve a grand slam of tennis' four top tournaments-the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships. Experts marveled at his vicious ground strokes and slashing serve, his unique ability to cock his wrist at the last instant to put topspin or underspin on the ball...