Word: outback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please expliquez (in one-syllable English words, of course) to us crude, unlettered, simplistic, insensitive, baffled and somewhat defensive middle-class folk from the outback why it is chic to dissent, but merely gauche (or is it camp?) to dissent from dissenters...
...nickel find was made by Ken Shirley, 55, a veteran of 40 years' prospecting for gold in the Outback. Last year he went to work for Poseidon. He found several promising outcroppings and staked out the drilling site. The big payoff has gone not to Shirley but to his burly friend Norman Shierlaw, an Adelaide broker, who hired him for Poseidon. A mining engineer before turning to finance last year, Shierlaw controls 8% of the company's 2.5 million shares, an amount worth $6.5 million. Sitting behind a desk littered with empty beer cans, lumps of ore, contract...
...splendid day for the seventh annual Henley-on-Todd Regatta, high point of the year for the outback town of Alice Springs, Australia. In broiling sunshine, yachts representing Australia and the U.S. fought it out for the Australia's Cup, while sun-bronzed Aussie and Yank oarsmen strained for the rowing championship. Children fished happily while lifeguards on surfboards kept an eye out for bikinied girls in distress. But as any Aussie will tell you, this was no run-of-the-millstream regatta. Consider...
Early in 1966, the Prince jumped to Australia and Timbertop, a Gordonstoun-like branch of Melbourne's posh Geelong school. Charles arrived in February, and for the next six months took 50-to-60 mile hikes in the outback, cooked johnnycakes over his own campfire, fed the pigs and chickens, and chopped wood by the cord. His schoolmates were friendly, though he recalls being chaffed as a "Pom" (Aussie slang for an Englishman) on at least one occasion. "I had an umbrella with me," he said. "It had been raining quite heavily, and they all looked rather quizzically at this...
Tuesday, February 18 THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). An expedition by Land Rover and on foot explores "Australia - the Timeless Land" showing the contrasts between the modern coastal cities and the primitive Outback, and peering into the future of the continent that may be the last frontier...