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...sport that in 1929 helped bring Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
...rapid succession the President met with four Prime Ministers-New Zealand's Wallace Rowling, Australia's Gough Whitlam, Britain's Harold Wilson and Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew-all on their way from a British Commonwealth meeting in Jamaica. To each, Ford gave the same basic message: despite widely voiced doubts in Asia and Europe (see story page 29) about America's dependability as an ally, in the wake of Communist victories in Cambodia and South Viet Nam, those "setbacks in no way weakened U.S. resolve to stand by its allies and friends in Asia...
Newman A. Flanagan, the Suffolk County assistant district attorney who successfully prosecuted Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin for manslaughter, said this week that he will also argue the commonwealth's case in the fetal experimentation indictments of four Boston City Hospital researchers...
...September 30th, 1974, in an after dinner speech to the delegates of the Commonwealth Press Union in Canberra, Australia, Lee unabashedly boasted, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review, "Well, in addition to all the conventional pressures we learned from the West, we also have special inquisitional instruments, ancient modes of torture, specially graduated to inflict pain more excruciatingly than that the journalists inflict on the politicians, plus, of course, interest added for grave injury done to the public good. We have also modernized these ancient forms with the addition of electrical and electronic gadgetry, stereophonic sounds to amplify...
...Correspondent David Aikman. Base personnel were obviously unprepared for the arrival of such large numbers of refugees. But despite the confusion and complaints (mostly from Americans) about the two-hour mess lines and the quality of the food, the operation got off to a reasonably good start. The British Commonwealth Wives' Club and the Catholic Ladies Sodality pitched in to serve rice, act as interpreters and deliver messages. Other volunteers served as cooks and baby sitters, changing diapers and burping infants. One of the few offers the military refused was one from McDonald's to provide each...