Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gloom is widespread, reports TIME'S Herman Nickel. "Surveys reveal that well over 1 million Britons [out of a total population of 56 million] now express a firm intention of emigrating; 4.5 million are considering it. There are long queues waiting for immigration permits outside the Canadian and Australian High Commissions. An exodus of the sizable American community has already begun...
...York Yacht Club, which has held it for 123 years. All that Courageous Skipper Ted Hood and his eleven-man crew got for their troubles was a few postrace swallows of champagne and a dunking in the soupy waters of Newport harbor. Undaunted, Alan Bond, the Australian real estate operator who had sunk $9 million into the disappointing Southern Cross challenge, promised to return to Newport some day, but with another boat...
...second major disappointment for this seaside resort in just a year. Once again Newport was witness to a finale that did not come close to living up to its advance billing. The challenge for the prestigious America's Cup by the highly-touted syndicate of controversial Australian Alan Bond proved to be about as well-produced as the Newport-filmed "Great Gatsby" which flopped a month before...
Race Three was to be the start of the big comeback for Southern Cross. The Australian crew had been defeated in the first two contests by margins of 4:54 and 1:11, and their backs were against the proverbial wall. But the first two races had been sailed in fog and light winds. This was not the Southern Cross's weather, the boat's admirers contended. Wait until the breeze freshens, they claimed, and she'll sail up to her much-publicized potential...
...guys are no different from the Watergate fellows," said Bob McCullough, manager of the defender Courageous syndicate, after members of the Australian squad had sneaked aboard Courageous at Newport Shipyard and prowled the deck of the sleek racing machine...