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Gathering in Canberra last week to celebrate their tenth year in office, the leaders of Australia's Liberal Party looked upon their nation's economic progress with warm and prideful eye. Said Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies: "The whole face of the land is being changed. No other country of comparable size or population in the world is so busy building its future." On the same day, a crowd of 1,400 in Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles...
Soon after Galveston was commissioned last year, it became clear that her electronic batteries confronted crewmen with new hazards that had not shown up in earlier missile cruisers (Boston and Canberra) with lower-powered transmitters. Also, the danger of intense microwaves (TIME, April 6) had not been plotted in detail. From animal experiments and sketchy data on humans, the Navy medics set a level of 10 milliwatts per square centimeter of body surface as conservatively safe for personnel aboard missile ships. Dr. Johnson's findings on Galveston proved that this level was sometimes exceeded...
When Kassem's army asked Britain to supply a big order of heavy weapons (centurion tanks, Canberra jets) of the sort that Iraq regularly got from Britain before the revolution, the British government mulled things over, decided to give British munitions firms the go-ahead. Anyway, most arms will not be delivered until early next year...
Self-Centered. In Canberra, Australia, the Customs and Excise Department, censor on all printed matter brought into the country, banned its own staff magazine when it had the cheek to run an article declaring that the agency was at its "lowest...
...Poona, Menon played his role as India's Defense Minister by enveloping his frail frame in a flying suit, strapping on a crash helmet and climbing aboard a Canberra jet bomber of the Indian air force. Streaking into Bombay in eleven minutes, Menon next appeared-natty in a white suit and swinging a cane-aboard the cruiser Mysore, the new flagship of the Indian navy. But it was as a politician of the folksy, Estes Kefauver model that Menon drew the largest crowds. At New Delhi and Madras he packed meeting halls to the rafters, and dhoti-clad crowds...