Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force is available, and so is Cambodia's army of 28,000, the tough Philippines' of 50,000, and Pakistan's soldiery numbering 160,000. Poised for take-off in Malaya are the 2,500 members of Britain's crack Commonwealth Brigade, composed of British, Australian and New Zealand units...
...Australian swimmer Murray Rose broke his own American and collegiate record for the metric mile as the 1941 NCAA swimming championships opened in Seattle yesterday. Rose, swimming for the University of California, was clocked at 17:31.8, over nine seconds under the mark he set two years...
...Stetz and Harry Turner were the Crimson standouts in the meet, each turning in iron-man performances in three of the most gruelling events in intercollegiate swimming. Turner, who missed a berth on the Australian Olympic team by a scant .2 second, cruised to victory ahead of teammate Bill Chadsey in the 220 with a time of 2:13.4--only a second off the Harvard record. Then in the 200 butterfly he finished right behind teammate Stetz in 2:11.3 to shut out versatile Bulldog captain Austin. Both Turner and Stetz, who set a new record in 2:11.0, were...
Popularity has come to her with a rush. Daughter of a Sydney tailor, Joan Sutherland took no formal voice lessons until she was 18. In 1950 she won $2,800 in an Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed a $28-a-week small-parts job at London's Covent Garden. She "jogged along" until 1958, when she became an overnight sensation in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
Died. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 78, lanky, white-shocked Australian-born pianist and folklorist whose fame as a serious artist and the composer of Brigg Fair, Molly on the Shore and Country Gardens was equaled by his fame as a serious eccentric who often hiked to concerts carrying a knapsack, was married in the Hollywood Bowl before a delighted audience of 22,000, abhorred meat, tobacco, coffee, tea and alcohol but adored cheese, raw vegetables and a half-and-half mixture of cold milk and hot water; of cancer; in White Plains...