Word: outbacker
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...statement proved somewhat exaggerated. But if Lisbon's sprawling, 500-year-old African outback wasn't being liquidated last week, it was certainly under siege-together with its neighbor and partner, South Africa. Having called the Security Council into session, the 32-nation African bloc demanded that 1) Portugal get out of her colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea, and 2) the world help throttle South Africa's apartheid regime. Behind both demands lay a deeper motive: to eliminate the last strongholds of white rule on the Dark Continent...
...could just as well be defining the history of Australia itself. Like the U.S. Wild West, Australia's vast mid-continental frontier has been a breeder of legends. And always the theme is man against terrifying odds. It may be drought, heat or the devastating loneliness of an outback town; the protagonist may be a gold digger, convict, explorer or the legendary Aussie bandit, Ned Kelly, defying a continent...
...Cuba is still the U.S.'s most harassing burden in Latin America, Brazil is fast becoming almost as big a one. Last week, in another of those flash moves that the New Frontier is so addicted to. President Kennedy sent his brother Bobby winging down to the modernistic outback capital of Brasilia to present Brazil's President Joao ("Jango") Goulart with some home truths, as seen from Washington. Kennedy and Goulart talked for three hours in the library of the presidential palace. When the two emerged, Goulart looked grim...
...Juscelino Kubitschek's free-spending Social Democrats and President Joao Goulart's leftist-nationalist Laborites-hung on to their powerful blocs in the country's fractured Congress, and that suggested that Brazil is in for more and worse trouble. So loud was the squabbling in the outback capital of Brasilia in the last session that Congress proved itself incapable of passing legislation aimed at solving Brazil's desperate economic and social problems. It rarely even produced a quorum. Since then, the problems have only grown worse. Last week Finance Minister Miguel Calmon reported that Brazil owes...
...past the horn-tooting spectator fleet, and the song rang through Newport all night. Even the cops cheered. "Nobody with an Australian accent goes to jail tonight," announced a local policeman. Said a crew member, amid the debris of Gretel's headquarters pub: "This reminds me of an outback pub at shearing time." Back home, radio stations played a special Gretel Song. The Sydney Sun announced the victory: WILY STURROCK OUTFOXES AMERICANS. And for this one race, at least, Bus Mosbacher was willing to agree. "I should have stayed home," he said...