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...Contemporary Australians could justifiably answer Lawrence with the words of another British author, Anthony Burgess, who recently wrote: "This great, empty continent must surely become the New New World, and it is significant that the accents of the disillusioned New World now mingle with the cheerful Dickensian cockney of Perth, Melbourne and Sydney...The country breathes promise, and it is a wonderful place for bringing up big, brown, bare-toed children...
...cities are all on the coasts, and three-quarters of the people live within an hour's drive of a beach. Sydney, built around three harbors, sometimes seems almost water borne. "All my students seem seduced by sport and sun," says a professor at the university in Perth, echoing the tribute of Poet Dorothea Mackellar to Australia as "the sunburned country...the wide, brown land...
...David Niven are members. Bing Crosby has been a frequent guest. But at White's, the 277-year-old London gentlemen's club, evidently enough show biz is enough. After Frank Sinatra was shown around the hallowed premises by Fairbanks and a party including the Earls of Perth and Westmorland, one old Tory sniffed: "Doug was a silly old fool to have done that. Bing Crosby, yes. But this is a different matter...
...Metal Climax has a 25% interest; Japan's Mitsui and C. Itoh and Britain's Selection Trust Ltd. hold lesser shares. Their hardest job has been to get the ore out from the Mount Newman area, which is 780 miles by road from the nearest large city, Perth. In just 14 months, U.S. and Canadian companies laid down 265 miles of railroad track to connect the site with Port Hedland, which until the iron boom had been a decaying northwestern port on waters swarming with deadly stonefish, sea snakes and sharks. When a despondent prospector blew himself...
...Montreal, as teams from eight nations gathered for the tenth world championship. With the whole country watching on TV, Calgary's Ron Northcott rink took aim on the title that Canada has lost only twice-to a U.S. club in 1965 and to a Scottish team from Perth last year...