Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An anthology of Australian athletics, including shark fishing, crocodile hunting surfboard racing, log splitting, sheep shearing, Australian football, jalopy racing-everything but billy-bonging...
...American record with a 3:57.6-min. mile last month, and stubby Jim Beatty of Santa Clara (Calif.) Youth Village, whose best effort is 3:58. Each time the two have met, Beatty has won. Betting is high that they may soon push each other close to Australian Elliott's world record...
Elliott should provide much of the excitement tomorrow, especially in the mile, where he and Mark Mullin of Harvard should hook up in a scorching battle. The Australian holds the world record in the mile at 3:54.5, and his best clockings for the 880 and two-mile are 1:47.3 and 8:37.6. This year, he won the 880 and the mile in the Oxford-Cambridge dual meet...
...Australian-born Congregationalist A. Campbell Garnett, philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Philosophical Association, thinks that most theologians have taken to playing a kind of word game of their own that has no relevance to the needs of ordinary men. For example, Paul Tillich, America's most eminent theologian, talks of God as "Being Itself" or "Ultimate Reality"-a hard kind of God to worship, much less to love...
...With its decision to open a chain of filling stations in Australia the U.S. s Phillips Petroleum Co. moved into a fiercely competitive market; though Australian gasoline sales are increasing by nearly 10% a year, the country's 2,800,000 vehicles are already served by more than 20,000 gas stations operated by eleven oil companies. To head its new subsidiary, Phillips made a shrewd choice: onetime Prime Minister (for one month in 1941) Sir Arthur Fadden, 66. A plain-talking, party-loving Queenslander who led Australia's Country Party for 17 years. "Artful Artie" Fadden retired...