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Fearful that the King might use the incident to incite more trouble, Chief Jonathan placed the youthful monarch under heavily guarded "protective custody." As reports reached the capital of sporadic fighting between police and the King's men in the rugged outback, Chief Jonathan expelled eight political figures, including several of the King's closest advisors. Some observers felt that Chief Jonathan was using the dust-up as an excuse to rid the country of what both he and South African authorities viewed as dangerous elements. As for the young King, Chief Jonathan seems inclined to forgive...
Wallabies & Fossickers. In conducting the continent's most accurate head count since Phillip's day, Prime Minister Harold Holt sent 18,500 census enumerators into the cities, suburbs and outback to track down some 11.5 million inhabitants. Some traveled by plane, some by Land Rover, others on horseback, foot and even skis. Each carried a 33-question census form and a language guide in eight tongues as disparate as Serbo-Croatian and Maltese. When they dealt with the "abos" -Australia's bug-eating, boomerang-throwing aborigines-census takers had to use sign language after they had finally...
...discredit Kelly; instead, he got Kelly hopping mad. Attacking the Governor for what he called "the big lie," the bluff country boy took to the backwoods to support Burns's city-boy opponent, Miami Mayor Robert King High, 42. Still trying to undercut Kelly in the outback, Burns then raised the race issue, warning that High would deliver the state into the hands of the "Negro bloc." He urged Florida to "follow the example of Alabama" in nominating a segregationist. Second mistake...
...comes when he switches from hardbacks to paperbacks. It is almost an article of faith nowadays that paperbacks are for reading, hard-covers for coffee tables. Though the big-book syndrome lingers on among some bona-fide readers, notably Ivy League freshmen returning on home visits to the cultural outback, any volume big enough to be spotted three lounge chairs away immediately puts its owner in doubt...
...cries can be heard from South Australia, where migrants are hard at work on a new zinc-recovery plant at Port Pirie, to remote eastern Queensland, where they are helping build Gladstone's $117 million alumina refinery. New workers are most urgently needed in the far-out outback of Western Australia, where some of the world's richest iron-ore reserves have been discovered since 1960 and are being developed in company with a whole clutch of vast new enterprises, notably a $100 million steel complex, bauxite mines, $100 million worth of oil refineries at Kwinana...