Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...avoid the tragedy of an artillery shell's hitting a crowded classroom. Last week workmen were installing bulletproof glass in the foyer of the U.S. embassy (even as American Charge d'Affaires Thomas Enders assured the capital's populace that "the enemy is failing"). The Australian and British embassies have sandbagged their front entrances, and half of the city's 5,000 French residents have fled...
Freshman sensation and Australian national team member Peter Tetlow has been spectacular so far this year, setting two University records in the 500 freestyle and 1000-yard freestyle with two marks that rank among the country's best this winter. But these two swimmers don't comprise the entire team. Backstroker Tom Wolfe, junior Dave Brumwell, sprinter Tim Neville, and captain freestyler Fred Mitchell each contributed key wins in the Princeton meet, and a host of others supplied vital second- and third-place points...
With artillery and rocket attacks now almost daily occurrences, foreigners have begun to flee the city. British and Australian dependents have already departed. A gathering of French residents at their embassy's cultural center ended in fistfights over the limited supply of evacuation air tickets. Rumors that the insurgents had begun infiltrating the capital swept through the city's crowded slums, terrifying the populace...
With an opening press run of 1.5 million, to be distributed initially in the Northeast and parts of the Midwest, the Star represents a major invasion by Australian Publishing Baron Rupert Murdoch. Now 42, Murdoch inherited a small Australian daily from his father in 1953 and built it into a worldwide publishing empire: eleven magazines and more than 80 newspapers in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain. Murdoch's major acquisitions include Britain's Peeping-Tom Sunday News of the World (circ. 6,000,000) and the London Sun (circ. 3,000,000), which was failing until...
However true that may be, it is not too harsh to say that White might have received less critical veneration if he came from Wales or Idaho. Still, for 30 years he has quietly written long, uncompromising and cerebral novels. Voss (1957), a study of a German exploring the Australian interior frontier, shimmered with metaphysical mirages. With desert-dry irony, The Solid Mandala (1966) considered the lives of twin brothers, respectively a librarian and a simpleton, and praised feeling at the expense of intellect. Three years ago, in The Vivisector, he produced an ambitious account of an artist who coldly...