Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Australian Prime Minister E. Gough Whitlam presented the gift July 4 as part of what he called Australia's role in celebrating the United States Bicentennial...
...Australian government has decided to give Harvard a gift of about $1 million to set up an endowed chair in the study of Australia and Australian relationships with the rest of the world...
Only a few short months ago, Deputy Prime Minister Jim Cairns, 60, was a man to watch in Australian politics. A onetime detective and university lecturer, he was running the government in the absence overseas of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam when a cyclone devastated the city of Darwin last December (TIME, Jan. 6). Cairns supervised the massive relief effort for the stricken areas so well that he was talked about as a possible replacement for Whitlam, who at the time was experiencing one of the popularity lows that have periodically marked his career...
Sipila and other women hope that their numbers may some day be more impressive in the U.N. and elsewhere. The International Women's Year Conference, they believe, will further that aim. Still, as an Australian delegate, Elizabeth Reid, pointed out: "There are some amongst us who believe that this conference will achieve very little, others who are concerned that it will be unnecessarily politicized." At week's end both of those possibilities seemed to be altogether probable...
Married. Evonne Goolagong, 23, Australian tennis star seeded fourth in this week's Wimbledon Tournament; and Roger Cawley, 25, a London metals broker; both for the first time; in Canterbury, England. Missing at the surprise ceremony was Vic Edwards, the coach who guided Goolagong to her 1971 Wimbledon victory and recently warned that she would have to choose between love and tennis. Goolagong, who plans to give up neither, announced: "I'm doing what I want, and that's that...