Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Cyril Ritchard, 79, Australian-born actor, singer and director best known for his portrayal of Captain Hook in Peter Pan; of a heart attack; in Chicago, where he had been appearing in the musical Side by Side by Sondheim. A courtly, mellifluous-voiced bon vivant, Ritchard began in 1917 as a chorus boy in Sydney, played everything from Restoration comedy to modern farce in Britain, Australia and on Broadway. "I've seen so much illness and suffering," he once said, "why inflict more? My job is to make people grin a bit and see the joke...
...scene from Some Like It Hot? The Seven Year Itch? Actually, that familiar sultry smile belongs to Linda Kerridge, 23, an Australian-born model whose role in an upcoming movie called Star$ shows she can give a pretty convincing imitation of Marilyn Monroe. In the film, Kerridge works in a Hollywood pleasure house where the women look like famous movie stars. Off-camera, Kerridge has little in common with M.M. "Marilyn was wonderful, but very lonely, without family, without roots," says Kerridge. "I will not have the same problem...
Euphemistically called "fertility awareness," the system was developed by a husband-and-wife team of Australian physicians, Evelyn and John Billings. It depends upon observing changes in the consistency of vaginal fluids. In the first days after menstruation, the vagina feels dry because of a decline in hormone production, a sensation that can be confirmed by the woman's examining finger. This is the first "safe" period. Within a few days, as the estrogen levels rise, the mucus feels tacky and appears cloudy and the fertile period begins. Then, at the estrogen peak, the mucus becomes smooth, slippery...
...early counts, Fraser's conservative coalition of the Liberal and National Country parties chalked up an 81-to-36 lead in the House of Representatives, with seven seats still in doubt. A new party, the Australian Democrats, captured a creditable 10% of the overall vote and seemed certain to win seats in the Senate...
...economics and politics." But four other Nobel prizewinners were among the 450 scientists, social scientists and theologians -many of a conservative stripe-who went to San Francisco for a three-day conference on "science and absolute values" sponsored by Moon's Unification Church. After an effusive introduction by Australian-born Neurophysiologist and Nobelman Sir John Eccles, Moon urged his guests, in barely understandable English, to express their beliefs fully. Housing, feeding and entertaining the academics plus their spouses for the brainy bash was costing about half a million dollars, but Moon was unperturbed. He viewed...