Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prowl for a likely vote getter in next December's Senate elections, the Australian Republican Party went to a promising place. Adelaide's Charles Birk's department store, picked out a $25-a-week salesgirl, broad-shouldered, brunette Olympic Swimming Champion Dawn Fraser, 23. Figuring that her five world records would make her all but unbeatable in swim-conscious Australia, the party invited Dawn to carry its banner but got a polite brush-off. "I understand one of the party's aims is to do away with the royal family." said loyal Monarchist Dawn...
...South African family, after emigrating to Melbourne, was appalled to learn how expensive Australian white nannies and maids are, packed up and went back to Johannesburg...
...will filed for probate at his adopted home of White Plains, N.Y., the late Australian-born Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger made a bizarre request: "that my flesh be removed from my bones and the flesh destroyed," with the skeleton to go to the University of Melbourne "for preservation and possible display in the Grainger Museum." But the remains of the eccentric creator of Country Gardens, interred in the family plot in Adelaide after his death last February, may never get to Melbourne. Explained his U.S. attorney: "By law a person cannot bequeath his body. The remains belong to the next...
...clubs properly. Says Hogan: "Gary is doing what I have long advocated: working hard on fundamentals and then working the fundamentals into his game. He is a fine, all-round player." In 1956, Player borrowed money to finance his first trip abroad. Since then, he has won the British, Australian and South African Opens, earned more than $100,000 playing golf. The top 1961 money winner-with $45,217, he now is $11,175 ahead of Palmer-Player has already staked out his next big victory: the U.S. Open in June. Says he: "I've got a wife...
Steve Clark, 17-year-old high school speedster from Los Altos, Calif., scored a major upset early in the three-day meet by beating Australian Murray Rose in the 220-yd. freestyle with a record-smashing time of two minutes flat. Picking up momentum, he flailed through the 100-yd. freestyle in 46.8 sec.-an achievement that ranks with an 8-ft. high jump, a 16-ft. pole vault, or a 100-yd. dash run in less than 9 sec. Slender (155 Ibs., 5 ft. 11 in.) for a swimmer, Clark plans to put on twelve more pounds...