Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courageous buy, a great buy," said Manhattan Art Collector Ben Heller. No question about it, the Australian National Gallery's $2,000,000 bid for a 1952 Jackson Pollock abstraction owned by Heller is an audacious, if not inflationary purchase. The painting, Blue Poles, is a typical Pollock skein of blue and black dribbles. Previously, the highest sum paid for an American painting was for another Pollock by the Museum of Modern Art. Its rumored price tag: a mere...
Margaret Court, the gracious Australian ace, made the mistake of picking up Bobby's challenge, and the result was this year's Mother's Day massacre. Bobby rattled her by presenting her with a bouquet of roses before the match started. He neutralized her normally sharp attack with frustrating spins and lobs. Court did not merely lose, she disintegrated. Final score: 6-2, 6-1. Says King: "When I finally saw the film of the match and watched him present her with those roses and Margaret curtsy, I yelled 'Margaret, you idiot, you played right into...
...straining the food-price spiral. A stronger dollar would also mean that American consumers would have to put up fewer greenbacks for imports like Japanese cars and French wines, and U.S. manufacturers would have to pay less for high-priced, short-supply items from abroad like Ghanaian cocoa and Australian wool, thereby relieving domestic inflationary pressure...
Whitlam, in the Australian manner, was the most direct and promised an end to nearly 23 years of meek acquiescence to U.S. policy in Asia. Whereas previous Prime Ministers had vowed that they would go "all the way with L.B.J.," Whitlam, the first Labor Prime Minister since 1950, asserted that Australia is "not a satellite of any country." Though the U.S.-Australian tie is important, he added, it is "only one aspect of our interests and obligations in our region and around the world. I believe that what we offer America now provides a better basis for a durable friend...
Palmieri, however, did not reckon with the power of the Australian National Mouse Club, a small but vocal group (57 humans and 2,861 mice) that is dedicated to the care, protection and love of Mus musculus, or the ordinary house mouse. "Disease carriers, indeed!" protests Mrs. Sheila Simpson, the club's president. "It's more likely that they will catch something from us. They're always getting tonsillitis or colds from the kids...