Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australian, Belgian, Greek, Italian, Peruvian and Spanish ambassadors to the U.S. were among the 800 or so guests attending Newport's top summer spectacular: the debut of winsome Janet Jennings Auchincloss, 18, daughter of Investment Broker Hugh D. Auchincloss and half sister of Jacqueline Kennedy (who sent a bouquet, insisted the party go on despite her own recent tragedy). The Auchincloss estate, Hammersmith Farm, was done up in Venetian style, with colored lanterns, a pink marquee on the lawn overlooking Narragansett Bay, Meyer Davis' orchestra in gondolier garb, gondolier hats for the young men and golden masks...
...that separates excellence from greatness. Under Sedgman's coaching, she ran, lifted weights, avoided boy friends. "They don't mix with tennis," she explains. In 1960, at 17, she upset Brazil's Maria Bueno in the finals, became the youngest woman ever to win the Australian championship...
Margaret has been beaten since-but only by herself. "Nerves," the experts called it when she lost to the U.S.'s Billie Jean Moffit at Wimbledon last year, after winning the Australian, French and Italian titles and going undefeated for ten months. Losing at Wimbledon, Margaret says, was "the biggest disappointment of my life. I let a lot of people down." She made up for that defeat by besting Billie Jean in straight sets in this year's Wimbledon final, running out the last game in typical slash-and-smash Smith fashion: two booming sideline forehands, a perfectly...
...himself, fashionably enough, is a nonhero. A man-about-town who knows writers rather than writing, and women only socially ("He never much liked their shape"), Pryar has sidled into the academic racket as the world's only authority on the world's worst poet, a gruesome Australian mother of seven named Dorothy Merlin. How can he be released from servitude to this distant termagant and become director of the Institute of Visiting Fellows? This is the question the plot turns on, and it looks like a Snow family specialty -academic power politics. However, all the characters...
...many sausages; a pause for worship in Stockholm with a lady priest; a visit to a Tokyo operating room where almond eyes are reshaped into English walnuts; a look at a European beauty clinic where faces are skinned and new complexions are grown from scratch; a visit to an Australian cemetery where the white-clad members of the Sporting Widows' Association play a jolly game of bowls beside their husbands' graves. There is the inevitable birth of a baby, a particularly untidy sequence accompanied by one of the most agonizing sound tracks ever recorded...