Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phillip Noyce, on the other hand, is ambitious: a boy with a future, a man with a vision. One of the new breed of Australian directors aiming for international fame, Noyce plucks modest Maguire from his fictional existence in fifties Australia, and saddles this potato-faced sap with the trials of the decade--a whole generation's troubles weighing down on his unathletic shoulders...
ACCORDING TO SHIVA and V.S. Naipaul, Mistah Kurtz--he ain't dead. His capacity for barbarism is alive in African dictators who act like capricious children in fatigues, and in Australian tourists who visit Africa to prove racism is justified because the natives are so in competent...
...Detroit not only for the meeting but also to push a lawsuit that is part of his fight to elbow his way onto the Ford board. Also present was Henry's only son Edsel, 30, who is assistant managing director of the company's Australian operation and the only member of the younger generation of Fords now being groomed for an important role in the firm...
...What happened with New York will never happen again," vowed Editor Clay Felker after his humiliating loss of that magazine in 1976 to Australian Publisher Rupert Murdoch. Never can be a very short time in the publishing business. This week Felker will lose another magazine, Esquire (circ. 650,000), which he bought in 1977 with money from British Publisher Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers. Associated is selling most of its interest in Esquire to 13-30 Corp. of Knoxville, Tenn., a small but fast-growing publisher of specialized magazines (New Marriage, Nutshell, Graduate) aimed at readers aged...
...Native Americans own most of the land under which lies our uranium supplies, essential to the nuclear fuel cycle, and Indians are unwilling to let the federal government go on mining the stuff. The government of course, is looking for a way around the rules. The Australian aborigines also find themselves sitting on much of Australia's potential uranium supply. Like the Native Americans, they consider these uranium mountains sacred. They even have a legend about them, which says that if even one of those mountains is disturbed, a huge snake will emerge to destroy the world...