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...away from their tribes, seeking their place in Australia's urban prosperity. Despite restrictions on their education, many have progressed from pidgin English ("Big feller rain bin come up") to the less colorful but more practical Queen's English ("I think we are in for a heavy downpour"). Several Aborigines are now serving with Australian forces in South Viet Nam. A 15-year-old Aborigine girl, Yvonne Goologong, is the national junior women's tennis champion. A few, such as Public Health Official Phillip Roberts (known to his tribe as Wadjiri-Wadjiri), even hold government jobs...
...place in the 150-year-old Italianate Villa Le Bocage on the west shore of Lake Geneva, once the home of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy and now headquarters of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the sponsoring agency of the Kennedy Round. While newsmen waited outside in a downpour (or took shelter in the stable), GATT's British director general, Eric Wyndham White, cajoled and goaded the weary negotiators, personally drafted part of the final package of concessions, in which no nation got all that it wanted. "Even the greater economic powers," said Wyndham White, "can no longer...
...shot that didn't even have a jockey 48 hours before the race. What's more, Proud Clarion ran the mile and a quarter in 2 min. 1/5 sec., third fastest time in history, only 1/5 sec. off the track record-and all in a steady downpour that turned the track...
Down upon arid Aden last week poured a torrent of rain so great that four-foot floods washed through the streets, cutting electricity and water service, destroying food and-such is the temper of the place-ruining large caches of ammunition stored secretly in many homes. The downpour, the worst in recorded history, delayed for a while the arrival of some distinguished visitors: a three-man team of United Nations observers sent to investigate the difficulties that Aden is experiencing in its transition to independence from Britain in 1968. The visitors might as well have stayed at home. Violence...
Muffled by the deafening downpour, a company of Australian reinforcements in armored personnel carriers crept over surrounding hills undetected by the V.C., opened up with .50-cal. machine guns, cutting down 25 Reds with the first volley. Then Australian, New Zealand and U.S. artillery found the range. When the smoke cleared, the Communists were in full flight, and 220 Viet Cong dead littered the ground. Under a rubber tree, guarding the body of his slain platoon leader, was Private B. C. Miller of Brisbane. Wounded in the face, shoulder and leg, Miller had lapsed into unconsciousness only to be awakened...