Word: australian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rosewall has been playing the same sort of stylish tennis since the '50s, when he and another Australian teenager, Lew Hoad, were beating U.S. Davis Cup teams manned by Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert. It has helped him win major titles over an incredible span: the U.S. championship in 1956 and again in 1970; the French championship in 1953 and 1968; the Australian championship four times, the first in 1953 and the most recent just this year...
Born. To Zoe Caldwell, 38, Australian actress and two-time winner of Broadway's Tony Award (for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Slapstick Tragedy), and Robert Whitehead, 56, Broadway producer (Jean Brodie, Bus Stop): their second child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Charles Albert...
...Australia, too, the welcome mat is being pulled back a bit. Nationalist suspicion was brought to a head when ITT, internationally somewhat notorious because of its political troubles at home, tried to buy Frozen Foods Industries of Australia Ltd. The Australian Cabinet last week hurriedly decided in principle to restrict foreign takeovers, though formal rules are unlikely to be framed for months...
...realize that many Americans revere the shortened word form, but unfortunately the word "Abo," referring to Australia's Aboriginal Embassy [March 13], is received by Australian aborigines with about the same amount of enthusiasm as the word nigger or coon by Negro people...
...still compete for larger purses, and the top men still win more than their female counterparts. Though no U.S. male tennis player matched Billie Jean King's earnings of $117,000 last year, Australian Rod Laver collected $292,000. In women's golf, last year's top moneymaker was Kathy Whitworth, with $43,500; in men's golf, 58 men made more than that, and Jack Nicklaus topped everybody with $244,490. In bowling, Patty Costello led the women last year with $5,275; John Petraglia led the men, with more than...