Word: mined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...better comprehension of his disease." Simultaneously, Louwtjie announced that she, too, has written a study of heart problems -though ones not necessarily connected with vascular stress. "It's a message of hope to all the women in the world who find themselves in a similar position to mine," she said of her forthcoming autobiography. The title: Heart Break...
...acre spreads by motorcycle, and its "kings in grass castles'' who raise huge herds of Santa Gertrudi cattle. But these are mostly the Australians of myth, slightly larger than life. The faces of modern Australia still include the prospector and the cattleman, but they also include the mine worker, the land developer, the labor leader and the successful young mod designer. Actually, the average Australian is not now-and never was-the remote man of the outback, "the son of field and flock ...from bold and roving stock," as Poet "Banjo" Patterson described the pioneer...
Perhaps the most obvious change in Australian life has been spurred by the mining boom of the past five years, which has more than offset the steady decline in farm income. There have been sizable finds of uranium, copper, lead, zinc, nickel, oil and natural gas. A huge bauxite mine is being developed in the remote Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. But the center of the expansion lies in Western Australia, which occupies 1,000,000 sq. mi. and has about as many residents. At Kalgoorlie, where Herbert Hoover once managed a gold mine, vast nickel strikes have revived...
...want clues to how I functioned with all this stuff, I can always turn to my high school yearbooks, neatly stacked on one of my shelves. I went to a large and intellectually shoddy public high school, but somehow we always had a pretty good yearbook. Mine is full of "autographs"-cutesy inscriptions from friends promising a wonderful future and at least two marriages. I don't know where these fellow Woodrow Wilson graduates are these days, but at least I can piece together the never-never-land existence I shared with them once upon a time...
...that "things were really pretty confused; I didn't have time." Ira Helfand '71 said last night that he too had used a friends ticket on a NPAC bus and had thrown away the original ticket. "My friend had gotten a whole bunch of tickets and had already bought mine for me," he said...