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...better part of two centuries, Australian elections have turned on such burning questions as the "kangaroo menace" or the cost of wool on the world market. Not so this week. As some 6,000,000 Australians go to the polls in the first federal election since 1963, no less an issue than Australia's role in Asia is at stake...
...More's marriage is on the rocks. Having turned washing-machine salesman and failed, he has been taken to a refuge called Suicide Sanctuary. The sanctuary is run by a do-good nut (Bayliss again). As his wife and helper, Patricia Routledge hops around like a kangaroo whose pouch has just been rifled. Her name is Rover, and she has an imaginary dog named Maureen. "I hate the whole beastly business," says More. "The competition, the rat race." Replies Bayliss, in a tone typical of the play: "You mustn't hate the rat race. The human race...
Despite the demonstrations, Johnson emerged on top after his days down under. Along with a planeload of gifts ranging from a brace of albino kangaroos to miniature Samoan canoes, he was accorded an impressive measure of approval-occasionally in spite of himself. Too often, the President seemed somewhat heavyhanded, particularly in his ponderous praise for Prime Minister Holt and his references to American affluence. He dwelt endlessly on his own limited wartime service in New Zealand and Australia; and his martial derring-do sounded more Mittyesque with each telling, until, at Melbourne's airport, he conjured up a picture...
...smell of grease paint still clings to their programs. Last week CBS announced that its newsmen would be making one-shot appearances on entertainment shows to publicize their election-night broadcasts. Thus Cronkite, among others, will soon make his debut on I've Got a Secret and Captain Kangaroo...
Down with the Venus of Milo. The transformation was often painfully crude. Kangaroo courts convened in the streets and meted out embarrassing punishment to anyone guilty of associating with foreigners. Doctors, for example, were forced to walk on their knees in the gutters because they had treated foreign patients. At Peking University, Red Guards encouraged students to spit on their professors. In Shanghai, two professors were forced to parade naked in front of the students...