Word: australian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University recently announced the creation of a professorship that will link the fields of business, labor and government. It also announced the formation of a committee in Australia to nominate candidates for the five-year-old visiting professorship of Australian studies...
...purpose of the new Australian-based nominating committee is to help select the visiting professor of Australian Studies here. This chair, currently held by Alan F. Davies of the University of Melbourne, was established by a gift from the Australian government to Harvard...
Dean Rosovsky appointed the members of the committee--all Australian scholars--in addition to a dean's advisory committee on Australian Studies - composed of the chairmen of the Harvard departments of Social Science and History and Literature. Rosovsky will chair this committee. A third advisory committee was appointed by the Australian government...
...weeks members of the British Establishment had been squawking like chickens with a fox in their coop. The fox, of course, was Rupert Murdoch, the high-rolling Australian press lord, best known for his torrid tabloids. His purchase of the ailing Times of London (circ. 279,000) raised fears that he would vulgarize the staid 196-year-old newspaper with sex and sensation. But last week the din subsided. The reason: Murdoch, 49, named Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans to the top job at the venerable daily. Evans, 52, an esteemed journalist and a passionate campaigner for press freedom...
...crime stories and pictures of scantily clad women. But Rupert Murdoch, 49, was never content to be lord of the tabloids. He gained a foothold in New York with the racy Post, then reached for a more literate audience with New York magazine and the Village Voice. Now the Australian publisher has reached an agreement to purchase one of the world's most staid and revered publications, the Times of London...