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Word: australian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four years ago, geologists for Queensland Mines Ltd. came across a tiny plot of ground in Australia's remote northern Nabarlek region that turned out to be the richest uranium deposit in the world. Assuming that mining rights could easily be obtained from the aboriginal owners, the Australian company quickly signed contracts to sell $60 million worth of ore to Japanese firms. What the mining executives failed to take into account was the aborigines' reluctance to disturb the green ants who live near the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Wrath of the Green Ants | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

From the moment he arrived in Newport last June with his twelve-meter yacht Southern Cross, Alan Bond has been upsetting the genteel traditions of America's Cup competition. First the Australian land promoter and mining tycoon uncrated 20,000 cans of Aussie Courage beer in a resort that prefers champagne or gin-and-tonics. Then he gave in to his crassly commercial instincts, briefly sporting the name of his own 20,000-acre development on the transom of his yacht. Finally, Southern Cross's tender rudely ran an opposition boat off its practice course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Brash Mr. Bond | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...only know what I read in the paper," said Australian Songwriter Peter Allen, 30, commenting on reports that his wife Liza Minnelli, 28, will marry Movie Producer Jack Haley Jr., 40. Then he signed official divorce papers, saying "When you've been separated longer than you were married, it's time to get a divorce." Peter and Liza were married in 1967 but have lived apart since 1970. He denies that marriage to an ambitious star maimed his own career as a singer. "I found out I was a writer rather than a performer." Now Peter is working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 29, 1974 | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

Back home in Sydney for only the second time in 23 years, Australian Soprano Joan Sutherland, 47, wasted no time in exercising a native's prerogative. She criticized the city's flamboyant new $148.5 million opera house that perches on the harbor like a multiwinged gull. "I can see it's too small," said 5 ft. 10 in. Joan before she made her operatic debut there in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. "The designer is even making my costumes smaller so the scale is right." Then she added, "What you need now is an opera house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 29, 1974 | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

...suggests that we program into the computers that aim our intercontinental missiles the instruction not to fire until we have acquired complete information about one living thing. He even offers as a candidate for this honor a protozoan called Myxotricha paradoxa, which lives in the innermost reaches of Australian termites' digestive tracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bug Next Door | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

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