Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Motors believes that "we would much rather be inscrutable than talk too much." His 9½ hours with Rappleye may set some sort of record for this reticent man. Recently, on one of Donner's inspection trips to G.M.'s overseas empire, he entered the orbit of Australian Artist William Dobell, who painted the cover portrait. The story was written by Everett Martin, 36, who once covered Detroit for the Christian Science Monitor and worked for the Wall Street Journal...
...soldiers and carried off the brand-new U.S. rifles they had just been issued. In turn, the Vietnamese army reported 20 Viet Cong slain in the central lowlands. Before leaving for home, McNamara heard that Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies has agreed to send a few crack Australian jungle troops to South Viet Nam to support the U.S. in checking the advance of Communism...
...frontier bridge between Hong Kong and Red China, a beefy Australian-born constable said: 'The only real problem is sending back the ones who don't have proper papers. Why, sometimes, they fall flat down and holler bloody murder. But we just pick 'em up and carry 'em to the bridge and send 'em back." Defensively, he added: "What are we gonna do with 'em? Hong Kong's bursting at the seams with Chinese refugees. Formosa won't have them. The United States has a strict quota system...
...best mimic, equipped with an enormous range of accents, inflections and dialects-including five kinds of cockney, Mayfair pukka, stiff upper BBC, Oxford, Cambridge, Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Country, Highland Scots, Edinburgh Scots, Glaswegian Scots, Tyneside Geordie, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody but his friends, that is; they are wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really is a sweet old German...
Having already etched a redoubtable academic reputation for his monographs on marsupial embryology and anatomy, Australian-born Zoologist Theodore Thomson Flynn, 76, closeted himself at the English Channel resort of Hove to finish off a book designed to "set the record straight" on a more complex mammal: his late son Errol. While insisting that "the Errol the public knew-the hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer-was a legend created by himself for publicity," the retired Belfast University professor (who recently celebrated his 54th wedding anniversary) conceded that his boy was not "perfect by any means. But neither was he wicked...