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...capital of our fledgling nation from Philadelphia." But in the move to Washington in 1800, only 126 bureaucrats made the trek by coach and horseback, while state papers went by ship. Brasilia will have 120,000 citizens next week and 500,000 within ten years. No new capital-Ankara, Canberra or New Delhi-compares with it for scope and speed...
Reporting on the land of wonder in 1960 was the task of Brisbane Stringer Fred Hubbard, a transplanted Chicago newspaperman who has spent 13 years covering Australia, and Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow. They spent three weeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra interviewing scores of businessmen, actors, writers, architects, economists and government officials. Says Karnow, "I personally was so impressed with the country's potential that before I departed, I left material proof of my faith in Australia's future: I invested a modest sum in four Australian companies...
...always held out for them. In addition. Labor's brilliant but erratic leader, Herbert V. Evatt-onetime (1948) president of the U.N. General Assembly-also got himself mixed up in seeming sympathy with the Reds, during the defection of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov from the Soviet embassy in Canberra (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)-When Evatt insisted that only the "vilest liars'" could link him with Communists, a Menzies aide retorted: "Those who fly with the crows must expect to be shot...
...shipyards of Queens Island, Belfast last week, joiners, painters, decorators and electricians were swarming over the newly launched, most luxurious superliner of Britain's maritime fleet. It is the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s 45,000-ton, $42 million superliner, Canberra. Sailing for P. & O., which coined the word "posh,"-the 740-ft. Canberra will be one of the poshest ships afloat, with a cruising speed of 27½ knots, air conditioning throughout, and closed-circuit television for passengers while the ship is at sea. Designed with an aluminum superstructure to save weight, and engines...
...Canberra joins the largest merchant and passenger fleet in the world, controlled by the 27-company P. & 0. group, with 370 ships (2,342,028 g.r.t). From London, the superliner wall sail through the Suez Canal to Australia, then across the Pacific to Vancouver and San Francisco, finally home via the same route. With her sister ship, the still-building, 40,000-ton Oriana, the Canberra will give P. & O. a commanding lead in Pacific passenger travel. Since it first sailed in these waters in 1954, P. & 0. has undercut the luxury-minded Matson and American President lines by emphasizing...