Word: boomerang
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...million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally discovered their quarry in mid-"walkabout." Abos, after all, spend their lives on the prowl in the wastes beyond the Great Dividing Range, running down witchetty grubs and wallabies from Birdsville to Alice Springs. When intercepted...
...Boomerang. To many of 1965's successful candidates, the name of the game was consensus politics. Yet in several contests, Negroes lodged powerful protest votes by mobilizing as a monolithic bloc-which is the very opposite of consensus...
Conservatives also showed that they can throw a punch-or in some cases, a boomerang. In New York, sardonic William Buckley led the fledgling Conservative Party into third place in total votes, but there is a strong possibility that he lured away more Democrats (because of his Catholicism) than Republicans (because of his ideology) and helped elect, rather than defeat, John Lindsay. In Virginia, a Conservative Party candidate garnered nearly 70,000 votes-enough to thwart G.O.P. hopes of upsetting Harry Byrd's not-so-purring machine...
...goes hunting for Marcello Mastroianni, 40, in a homicidal fantasy called The Tenth Victim, now being filmed in Rome. Studio technicians ad mit they're still trying to figure out how she's supposed to fire a double-barreled bra. Other ordnance for the film: a boomerang Beretta, a "poodle pistol," and possibly a "tummy...
...Boomerang. "Knocking" slogans, in adman's parlance, are apt to be risky-though pollsters find that the "carpetbagger" label has been damaging to Robert Kennedy's senatorial campaign in New York. By failing to repudiate promptly a supporter's denunciation of "rum, Romanism and rebellion" in 1884, James G. Elaine lost New York's electoral votes and the presidential election against Grover Cleveland. Barry Goldwater has probably lost votes by charging that Lyndon Johnson is "soft on Communism"-an inflammatory Republican slogan a decade ago, but now a burnt-out cliché. Another Goldwater slogan that...