Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australian scientists got on the trail because of infertility in sheep: it turned out that the barren ewes were browsing on estrogenic plants. In India, Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal thought he had found just what the subcontinent needs in an extract from the common pea, Pisum sativum, but his results have not been confirmed. Some Europeans and the American Shoshone Indians swear by an extract from a species of gromwell or stoneseed (Lithospermum), but scientists have not been able to find the magic in it-if there...
...this week's cover started coming off the presses, the artist who painted it, Sidney Nolan, was in the mountainous wilds of the Sepik area of New Guinea watching native dances. "I wish Nureyev could have been here in the mountains with me," Nolan told TIME'S Australian correspondent by radiotelephone. "Somehow, 100 natives dancing with gorgeous bird of paradise feathers in their hair symbolized for me the very spirit of ballet...
This is TIME'S third cover story on the ballet* and Nolan's first cover for TIME. It was a commission that he welcomed with great enthusiasm. An Australian who now lives in London, Nolan is known for his brooding canvases, his translucent colors, and his figures of man, often puzzled but always dignified. A ballet buff for years, he designed the sets for Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at London's Covent Garden. He is a convinced Nureyev fan, has been observing the dancer since 1962. In London he once watched from the balcony...
Religious Alarums. Almost from the beginning, the reader is writhing in doubt too, but of another kind. Author West is an Australian, widely traveled in the Far East, who knew Ngo Dinh Diem and came to admire him. "Cung," visualized as a remote and complex man, is a half-created shadow who is nonetheless the only real hero of the book...
...happened, the attack was called off. But Faas hurried back to Saigon and told Australian-born A.P. Reporter Peter Arnett what he had seen. Within hours, Arnett sent clattering out over A.P.'s wires a dispatch that began: "U.S. and Vietnamese military forces are experimenting with nonlethal gas warfare in South Viet...