Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even seated at his littered desk in Canberra's Parliament House, he always seemed bigger than life. His great black eyebrows clumped out angrily, like saltbush in the Great Sandy Desert, and his vast stomach bulged defiance against his double-breasted suit. He was quarrelsome, autocratic, always demanding, and the greatest orator his country has yet produced. He founded the Liberal Party that swept him to power, forged the government coalition that kept him there for 16 years. Prime Minister Sir Robert Gordon Menzies not only governed Australia. He overpowered...
...chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Fulbright is in a unique position to know what is happening in the world-and manages to sound that way. Nonetheless, in Canberra last week, on his way to a Commonwealth parliamentary conference in New Zealand, the usually oracular Fulbright shocked proud Australians by admitting he was "not aware" of Australia's commitment (1,550 men) to Viet Nam. In any case, he added loftily, he did not favor "great wars." Sensitive Aussies, who have been divided on their own role in the war, reacted predictably. Snapped Labor M.P. Albert...
...drafting of the U.N. Charter, but proved unsuccessful at home as head of the Opposition Labor Party, primarily because of his ultraliberal defense of many Communist causes (the 1954 Petrov spy scandal), which split the once-powerful Laborites and cost them every election since 1951; of pneumonia; in Canberra, Australia...
What did it all mean? Police, in the best tight-lipped Scotland Yard tradition, declined to say. Nonetheless, every reporter on the scene was busy trading rumor and theory. Last week an R.A.F. Canberra was called in to take aerial photographs of the grave sites. Newsmen promptly asked Detective Superintendent Arthur Benfield whether some kind of black cult could have buried its victims in a magic pattern or symbol, visible only from the air. "I like black magic," Benfield parried, "but they tend to make me put on weight." Black Magic is a well-known brand of English chocolates...
Early last week the Pakistanis mounted a counteroffensive and drove the Indians back to the border. Some hungry, homeless inhabitants returned to Kasur, but now death rained down from the sky. On Sept. 14, Canberra bombers of the Indian Air Force blew up a two-block area with thousand-pound bombs and demolished a factory complex on the city's outskirts. Kasur was hit almost daily by Indian jets pumping 20-mm. shells into anything that moved. An estimated 1,200 dead lie buried in the ruins...