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Fourteen years after a war in which the country narrowly escaped being overrun by the Japanese, Australia's "populate or perish" program has brought 1,400,000 European settlers to its shores. Half of them are "New Australians" (meaning Continental Europeans), who are changing the look and sounds of a nation whose people are rugged in their insularity and proud of the common bond of their British Isles origin...
...performance. Two weeks ago Robinson came close to failure with The Jazz Singer, starring Jerry Lewis. But Producer Robinson has a reputation for imagination and drive, carved as program boss of CBS, a job he held for a dozen years, until last summer. It was Robinson who patiently brought along young producers and writers, prodded them to "think offbeat," helped develop such CBS shows as Playhouse go, See It Now, Twentieth Century. At CBS, suave and slender (5 ft. 8 in., 150 Ibs.) Vice President Robinson also became known as a cold, meticulous personality, given to $250 Dunhill suits...
Rainbow's Reach. Color in daily journalism is not new. The Milwaukee Journal first used run-of-press color in 1891. But such color remained a prohibitively expensive rarity until after World War II, when technical improvements in the process brought costs down to a level that newspapers-and newspaper advertisers-could afford...
Hard-Nosed, Hard-Bitten.WhenCoach Schwartzwalder arrived in 1949, Syracuse's chief interest in football was to beat archrival Colgate occasionally. Coach Ben brought with him a 25-5 record, compiled at little Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and a determination to revive Syracuse's glory days of the '20s, when the team won 50, lost 11, tied 6 in seven seasons. As a 152-lb. center out of Huntington, he had learned hard-nosed football at West Virginia playing for Coach Greasy Neale, later coach of the pro's world champion Philadelphia Eagles. As a paratrooping major...
...mankind's enemies, the tiniest and most elusive may also be the toughest : viruses. Despite recent breakthroughs, such as development of vaccines against polio, viruses still cause an immense amount of disease. There are no cures or even effective treatments for illnesses brought on by the smaller, typical viruses. These facts were emphasized last week as the American Public Health Association convened in Atlantic City, with a generous sprinkling of foreign experts to sound the keynote, "Public Health Is One World...