Word: canberras
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Since Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies and his Liberal Party were re-elected last November, he has raised the defense budget by $124.5 million to a total of nearly $586 million. Australia's seven squadrons of obsolete Canberra bombers and F-86 fighters will be replaced with French Mirage 111-0 fighters. Menzies has also placed orders for three U.S. guided-missile destroyers and four British Oberon-class submarines to bolster Australia's tiny fleet, consisting of a single aircraft carrier (damaged in a collision last Feb. 10), three destroyers and a handful of frigates and mine sweepers...
Getting Poorer. The conference's moving force and secretary-general is Argentina's German-descended Dr. Raul Prebisch, 62, who recently jetted to more than 20 capitals, from Canberra to Moscow, to win support for the conference from governments and business leaders. Last week, in a 165-page report, he outlined the problems and proposals that the Geneva conference will tackle...
...John Carew Eccles, 60, professor of physiology at Australia's National University at Canberra, the dry, used microelectrodes so tiny that they can be inserted into single nerve cells...
Aboard the P. & O.'s newest luxury liner Canberra, when she sailed from Southampton one afternoon last week, were 1,700 Britons who had paid only $28 each for the 21-day, 12,000-mile voyage to Australia. If the tourist-class passengers were getting a bargain, they represented an even greater boon for population-hungry Australia, which still likes to boast that it is "more purely British than Britain" and has spent $128 million since 1945 to lure close to a million emigrants from the mother country...
Historically, as "assisted" emigrants, the Canberra's passengers were only following in the wake of the first shipload of British convicts who sailed somewhat less stylishly into Sydney Cove in January 1788. What has astonished officials in Whitehall and Sydney is that Britons are leaving their affluent isle for Australia in greater numbers today than at any time since 1949, when their country was at the grey nadir of postwar austerity. In the first four months of 1963, London's Australia House has received more applications for exile-made-easy than it got in all of 1962. Altogether...