Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Australian government will give $1 million to Harvard this summer to establish an Australian Studies Endowment Fund, William S. Olney, director of Special Projects, said yesterday...
...fund, a gesture to the U.S. bicentennial, will finance a chair in Australian studies designed "to promote awareness and understanding of Australia" at Harvard and throughout the United States, Olney said...
Renaissance writers insisted it destroyed grass, tarnished mirrors and dissolved asphalt. The sight of it, Australian aborigines believe, can turn a man's hair gray. Until 1967, campers at Glacier National Park were warned that its odor can incite bears to attack...
...surprisingly, Hanoi has voiced support for Soviet policy toward Portugal, India and Angola-all of which have been bitterly criticized by China. At the same time, Hanoi has sought, and received, commercial contracts with Swedish, Indian, Australian and French companies. The Japanese are building a chemical fertilizer plant with a potential yearly output of 120,000 tons, and a Tokyo oil company last week was awarded exploration rights to Viet Nam's as yet unproved offshore oil reserves...
...dean of the new-and largely liberal-school is the Washington Star's Patrick Oliphant, 40, an Australian who came to the U.S. in 1964 and brought with him the wry wit and clear, single line of British illustration that many younger cartoonists imitate. Tony Auth, 33, graduated from the UCLA student paper to the Philadelphia Inquirer, where his strongly liberal cartoons have sometimes been at odds with the paper's editorial policy. The Dayton Daily News's Mike Peters, 33, is such a comically gifted draftsman that many of his cartoons could stand without their captions...