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...nose, with a strong blood and slime character, offering hints of diesel and clove cigarettes. "They're still out here," Radon says to the others, as the tender rough-rides it back to the ACV. The crew express no animosity toward the elusive Indonesians. "They're not wearing gold chains and driving Cadillacs," says Fitzsimmons. "The arse is falling out of their pants and their own fishing grounds are an abyss." Later that evening, courtesy of Trish Wallam, dinner has an exotic smell; sitting down to an ample spread, the crew merrily scoff spicy crayfish and scallops. Although the silverside...
...Hope is what kalgoorlie is built on. "That man," says Rev. Marumba, pointing to a statue of Paddy Hannan in the town's main street which bears his name, "he discovered gold here. They say he pushed a wheelbarrow from Perth." But on a day trip out to the mining town of Laverton, Marumba is prospecting for souls, not gold. Stretching his legs at Laverton's roadhouse after the 3.5-hour drive north, he spots some Aboriginal teenagers. "When you're in Kalgoorlie," he tells them, "come to church." But Marumba's most important work is being done out here...
...main street menzies these days, drive past the graceful Western Australian gold-rush town's lone pub and petrol station, and travel 50 km west along a gravel road to Lake Ballard. It's here, on a 70 sq. km lake dried to a shimmering salt plain, that Menzies shire president Kath Finlayson likes to meet and greet her townsfolk. To an outsider, the 49 metal sculptures appear almost extraterrestrial, with their pointy heads and pixie feet. But to a Menziesite, each is uniquely human. "This is one of the tribal elders," says Finlayson, 56, by way of introduction...
DIED. JOE GOLD, 82, California bodybuilder and founder of Gold's Gym; in Los Angeles. Gold, center, was an early popularizer of bodybuilding in the U.S. and mentor to a broke Austrian bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he allowed to work out for free and nicknamed "Balloon Belly." His Venice Beach gym was the setting for the documentary Pumping Iron...
Swimmer Michael Phelps is about to challenge the record set by MARK SPITZ of seven gold medals at the 1972 Olympics. It was a feat worthy of a TIME cover...