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...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...
...would be hard to find a tougher or more tenacious people than Australia's Aborigines. They have to be. Virtually Stone Age nomads, the Aborigine tribes roam naked through the desolate Australian outback, where temperatures in summer often hit 120°. They live off the arid land, eating grubs and roots and maybe, if they get lucky, an occasional lizard or kangaroo. Last week in Tokyo, Lionel Rose, 19, a leathery young Aborigine from Gippsland, Victoria, put his native toughness and tenacity to good use. By outboxing, outpunching and outpointing Japan's Masahiko ("Fighting") Harada over 15 furious...
...strict immigration laws that fence the country off from the dark-skinned peoples of Africa and Asia. As for the Australian Aborigines-the dark-skinned people who were already there when the first white men arrived-they have long since been driven deep into the arid outback. Hopelessly backward by the lights of European civilization, they have often been treated not as second-class citizens but as a subhuman species, a kind of ethnological curiosity...