Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...light shines best on Peter Allen at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, and he knows it. In 1981, before seven sellout audiences, the campy Australian crooner rode onto the Radio City stage atop a camel This time he offers an affectionate if glitzy tribute to Al Jolson. There are 37 musicians, 36 Rockettes and a 40-ft. staircase for Allen to prance upon As a dancer, Allen makes up in perspiration what he lacks in locomotion. Is he afraid of falling from those steps? Said he: "There are 36 girls to catch...
...since 1963, when Ronald Biggs, 53, and 14 others relieved a Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.3 million in what will be forever referred to as the "Great Train Robbery." Resettled for the past dozen years in Brazil and exempt from extradition, Biggs was recently tapped by an Australian ad agency to play the Ricardo Montalban-Juan Valdez role for Café de Rio. "Living here in Rio, I have lots of coffees to choose from," says Biggs in the ad. "And when you're on the run like me, you appreciate a good cup of coffee...
Joshua Slocum offered that advice after returning in 1898 from a solo three-year voyage around the world in his 36-ft. 9-in. Spray. Last week 16 sailors from eight countries (five Americans, three Britishers, three Frenchmen, a New Zealander, an Australian, a Japanese, a South African and a Czech) followed the great Yankee skipper's advice. As a gunshot cracked across Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay to signal the start, each sailor turned his stern on the plush attractions of old Newport, his bow toward the starting line off Goat Island and the wild Atlantic...
...public, he is hardly that at home. His two trophies from the French Arc de Triomphe wins are the centerpieces on twin dining-room tables. The walls of the bright, airy living room are covered with photos of Sangster, his vivacious second wife Susan (former wife of onetime Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock) and, of course, horses. Out across the 90 acres of manicured lawn and woods, however, the real thing is missing. He keeps none there. "Don't like riding," mumbles the great breeder. "Don't know...
...little like spitting in the ocean," complains Robert Delano, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "We have simply invited the Soviet Union to shop elsewhere to fill in its shortages." Says Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa: "This extension is great news for Argentine, Australian, Canadian and European farmers...