Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PARKER PEN has mechanized the pen-pal business. An IBM machine, stuffed with 65,000 names gathered the world over, matches ages and hobbies in minutes. Those interested can correspond with French spelunkers, Australian fur farmers or Arabian schoolboys...
Born. To Rod Taylor, 34, onetime Australian artist turned Hollywood heartthrob (Sunday in New York), and Mary Hilem, 26, former Manhattan model: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood...
...beams from the side of airplanes, buses and trucks, from 20 resort hotels and motels, and from the signs and billboards of 70 companies. Ansett owns them all-together with other assorted properties that make up an $85.5 million empire. Last week Ansett's ubiquitous name flickered onto Australian TV. In Melbourne he opened a $9,000,000 Ansett-owned station, Channel Zero. He has bought into others in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth...
Fire the Chairman. Ansett had in creased his fleet to seven planes by the end of World War II, but by then others saw opportunity in the air. The government set up Trans-Australia, and a private firm formed Australian National Airways. When the banker who served as Ansett's board chairman suggested that he sell out to competing Australian National, Ansett fired him, eventually bought out A.N.A. himself for $6,700,000. When the government ordered him to raise fares along with Trans-Australia, Ansett stubbornly refused and forced a backdown. "I've got a kind...
Ansett thrives on battles, has irritated many Australian businessmen in his steady drive to increase his empire, and was widely criticized in 1958 for forcing a small Aussie airline into his holdings. "When I started out," he says, "I thought I'd work very hard until I was about 35 and then retire. But you never reach that stage. Your aim is to consolidate what you have built up, and there is always more consolidating to do." For Ansett, 55, there is always more expanding to do too. He is now intent on breaking out of Australia and getting...