Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special cases." To qualify for that category, a bribe of $2,000 or more is needed. Even so, the passport office is crammed with applicants. When a rumor swept the city that Australia was granting unlimited visas to South Vietnamese, a massive crowd snarled traffic in front of the Australian embassy. After the 1954 truce, as many as 50,000 Vietnamese settled in France, which many Vietnamese regard as a cultural mother country. Last week the French embassy was again besieged...
...sort of lemming effect: first the diplomats and the well-to-do left, then the civil servants, the Americans, and finally officers, enlisted men and even policemen-and in no time the stampede was on. "Suddenly all the people were cornered like rabbits," said Don Sewell, an Australian who administered a hospital in Qui Nhon. "They didn't know which way to run next. The whole city was buzzing. I don't know where people were going, but they were going from one end of the town to the other...
...TRUE today as when it was written, in 1936 by an Australian novelist working in a private bank in Paris. When Bernie Cornfield ten years ago asked the question, "Do you sincerely want to be rich?" he was playing the game according to these rules; William Make peace Thackeray knew that "the facade is everything" when he told Victorian England "How to live well on nothing a year" in Vanity Fair. Alain Resnais's Stavisky, based on a real swindler who flourished in mid-30's Paris, is a man who understands this first principle of high class fraud...
...South Australian Government
...fact, Mrs. Marie Dobbs, an Australian-born journalist who has published a handful of novels under the name Anne Telscombe. Only one has come out in the U.S.: The Listener...