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...Mitch Ryder, Lesley Gore), but all reflect his desire to "avoid the naked, irritating sounds while using the basic force of the beat." Crewe's three-floor Manhattan penthouse-decorated with mirrored ceilings, carved panels from the Indonesian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, and kangaroo-skin bedspreads-is also the nerve center for his group of eight production, publishing and management companies (1967 gross: $4,000,000), which he recently reorganized on the advice of his astrologer...
...Aborigines. They have to be. Virtually Stone Age nomads, the Aborigine tribes roam naked through the desolate Australian outback, where temperatures in summer often hit 120°. They live off the arid land, eating grubs and roots and maybe, if they get lucky, an occasional lizard or kangaroo. Last week in Tokyo, Lionel Rose, 19, a leathery young Aborigine from Gippsland, Victoria, put his native toughness and tenacity to good use. By outboxing, outpunching and outpointing Japan's Masahiko ("Fighting") Harada over 15 furious rounds, Rose took away Harada's bantamweight boxing title, and thereby became the first...
...vote goes to Captain Kangaroo. If more adults like him were in contact with our children, our next generation might be better able to handle the many problems facing humanity. (MRS.) SUSAN B. FRIEDMAN Pasadena...
...scientists generally agree that the major climatic changes of the past 50,000 years occurred at approximately the same time throughout the world, the disappearance of species did not. Thus the antlered giraffe disappeared from Africa more than 40,000 years ago, and the rhino-sized Diprotodon and giant kangaroo became extinct in Australia about 14,000 years ago. In Europe and Asia, the woolly rhinoceros and the woolly mammoth ceased to exist between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago, before the species disappeared in North America. Yet on Madagascar, the extinction of giant lemurs and pigmy hippopotamuses...
...some British musicians, says Malcolm Williamson, an Australian composer is like a kangaroo at Court - a complete contradiction in terms. But to Williamson, a much admired Australian composer living in Britain, his Down Under background is an up-over musical advantage. "It's wonderful," he says, "not being bothered by tradition...