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...were tested-many of them below eighth-grade standards in reading skills-picked up an average of 3½ years in reading ability. Faced with the responsibility of helping younger children, teen-agers with a previous record of hostile indifference to schooling were transformed into alert, highly motivated students. Matilda Medina, 18, who was two years below average in reading, went up ten points in her English grade as a result of teaching others, and now has college ambitions. "I put more effort into studying now-I know better what's really important in life," she says...
Tuesday, March 31 CHANGING MATILDA: THE NEW AUSTRALIA (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Chet Huntley reports on the surge of immigration to Australia, the problems of the barren interior land, and the country's economic involvement in Asia...
...months later, members of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association looked up from an outdoor luncheon to see one of their members approaching followed by "a wandering Yank who sort of popped in and wants to sing us a song." Buddy gave them up-tempo renderings of Waltzing Matilda and Seven Old Ladies. The N.S.W.T.A. members responded with For He's a Jolly Good Fellow and a gift of a tennis racket and a pair of sneakers. While in Australia Buddy even acquired an agent-as the price of playing on television in Sydney. When he was singing...
...awash with wassailing sailors. Broken beer glasses littered the floor, and a steady stream of fresh pitchers was passed precariously back over the heads of the yelling, singing crowd. Atop the bar, the most incongruous chorus line in Newport memory clumped groggily to the strains of Waltzing Matilda, with Sir Frank Packer, the doughty "Big Daddy" whose money built Australia's Gretel, in the lead. Weatherly crewmen, hugging their Aussie counterparts, poured drinks down their necks with fraternal abandon. Just as a huge mirror crashed from the wall, the police barged in to urge the celebrating yachtsmen out into...
...Goes to Jail." Gretel's joyous crew was singing Waltzing Matilda as they were towed back to port past the horn-tooting spectator fleet, and the song rang through Newport all night. Even the cops cheered. "Nobody with an Australian accent goes to jail tonight," announced a local policeman. Said a crew member, amid the debris of Gretel's headquarters pub: "This reminds me of an outback pub at shearing time." Back home, radio stations played a special Gretel Song. The Sydney Sun announced the victory: WILY STURROCK OUTFOXES AMERICANS. And for this one race, at least...