Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detective work began five years ago, when Australian National University's Dr. Robert Kirk collected blood specimens from a group of aborigines and sent samples to Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg at Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research. Blumberg, who was studying the effects of frequent blood transfusions for diseases such as leukemia, tested blood from many parts of the world. Of 24 samples examined, only one from an aborigine caused the test-tube reaction he was looking for. Blumberg found the cause to be an ultramicroscopic viruslike particle. He and Dr. Harvey J. Alter, of the National Institutes...
Born. To Zoe Caldwell, 35, Australian actress who won a Tony for her first big Broadway hit, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and Robert Whitehead, 53, her producer in the play: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...fact that Australian tennis player Fred Stolle prefixes every sentence with "Shift," helps provide an insight into his personality...
...Australian domination was not entirely surprising. American entries had been expected to have a rough time at Longwood, but the beating they received was quick, calculated and thorough...
Dennis Ralston, Butch Buchholz and Marty Riessen all fell on the tournament's first day. Ron Holmberg, after beating South African Cliff Drysdale, blew his match with Stolle. And Pancho Gonzalez, the Old Wolf, fell apart, leading Australian Ken Rosewall 2-0 in the third set, then losing...