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Well-to-do Australians who used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...
...with an African legislative majority in Tanganyika for a four-year transition period, after which the Africans will almost certainly take over entirely. "Now," says Nyerere, slated to be the first Prime Minister, "our task really begins. We have changed our cry from 'Uhuru' to 'Uhnru Na Kazi'-freedom and work...
...wrang na my virginitie...
...Bridal Path (British Lion; Kings-ley-Union). "What signifies the life o' man," sang Bobby Burns, "An' 'twere na for the lasses, 0?" The question is askit o' Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers), a couthie young crofter o' Beigg, by the carlies o' that Scottish isle, an' afore the braw laddie can say tapsalteerie he's awa' to the mainland tae hilch himsel' a wife. He haes his courtin' orders: nae Campbells, nae Catholics, and nae lassies from Erismore Isle. An' he haes the cantie assistance...
...Associated Press' cigar-chewing Forrest Edwards, rose during one press briefing to complain that 17 different government spokesmen had given him 17 separate reports. "What do you expect?" Minister of Information Sisouk Na Champassak replied accurately. "If you speak to 17 different people, of course you'll get 17 different stories...