Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promptly declined. Booth did not feel that his experience suited him for running a food company. During 20 years with Ford Motor Co., he played a major role in setting up the company's financial control system, became a director and eventually headed Ford's Australian subsidiary. In 1968 Booth joined the Rockwell International Corp., a Pittsburgh-based company that manufactures such durable goods as missiles and other space vehicles, gears, filters and textile machinery...
...simplest, most straightforward level, the Agassiz Cup story is characteristic because it's about crew--the sport that in 1929 helped bring Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
Grand Slammer Budge was the first player to win the Australian, French, Wimbledon and U.S. championships in the same year...
...French steel industry has declared that it faces a "manifest crisis," demanding, so far unsuccessfully, that the Common Market permit controls on imports of steel from outside the nine-nation Community. The Canadian and Australian governments have already posted restrictions on textile imports. Last week the British automobile industry, with protectionist action clearly in mind, formally asked the European Economic Community to investigate charges that Japanese cars are being "dumped" in Britain. In the U.S., the United Automobile Workers union is trying to document a suspicion that Volkswagen Rabbits are being dumped in America...
...left behind one correspondent, James Laurie, and a cameraman, Australian Neil Davis; on hand for CBS was former British Schoolteacher Eric Cavaliero, who had taken refuge in the network's Saigon office last month. About a dozen British correspondents, along with several Frenchmen and Italians, also stayed. Of the 37 Japanese journalists still in Saigon, a few were there willingly, but most because their American evacuation buses had not shown up. Other non-volunteers were United Press International's bureau manager Alan Dawson, 32, Asian News Editor Leon Daniel, 43, Correspondents Paul Vogle and Charles ("Chad") Huntley...