Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AUSTRALIAN artist William Dobell, 61, a man of gentle manner but with an incisive painter's eye-as his April 4, 1960 cover of Australia's Prime Minister Menzies showed-likes to capture his subject's character in a way that a photograph cannot. He feared that South Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem would be a "mandarin-like subject, whose face might not reveal his feelings.'' Instead, sketching his subject in the palace drawing room in Saigon, while Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow conducted his interview, Dobell found President Diem an animated, "rather...
...Australia, G.M.-Holden's Ltd. commands 48% of the continent's car sales, while Ford's subsidiary pushed its share to 18% last year, after introducing the compact Falcon-with 94% Australian-built parts. From Australia, Ford and G.M. export throughout Southeast Asia...
Fearful of the loss of their trading privileges with a Britain economically wedded to the Six (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands), the Commonwealth countries wanted no part of the Common Market. "Old friendships fade," observed the Australian correspondent of the London Economist acidly. "The club is not what it was. The far-flung Empire became the glorious Commonwealth; and then suddenly it seemed nothing but a millstone round Britain's neck as Britain tried to get into the swim...
...Sandys was "shocked and flabbergasted." It took nine hours to draft the final brief communique. Virtually dictated by Menzies. it stipulated that if Britain did begin talks with the Six. Australia would be forced to "negotiate direct on Australia's behalf when details and arrangements affecting items of Australian trade were being discussed...
...hole final day, Palmer turned on the steam. He opened the third round with a flutter of birdies, carded a 69. Henning fell five strokes back, last year's champ, Australian Kel Nagle, six. Palmer's greatest challenge came from Rees, a plucky, 48-year-old veteran who has futilely pursued the Open title for a quarter of a century. But Rees slipped a stroke behind with a 71 in the third round, could only match Palmer's final round of 72 to lose...