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...ship model he had made himself. When the Administrator was transferred, a Darwin couple adopted Bas Wie, and he got a job as a clerk at the Commonwealth Works Department. There, a year and a half ago, 24-year-old Bas Wie met a pretty young white girl from Perth. After a year-long courtship, the two were married in the Roman Catholic Church where Bas Wie had once served as an altar...
...Sprinting in nearly perfect step, Australia's 19-year-old Herb Elliott and Mervyn Lincoln whipped across the finish line of a mile race in Perth, Australia in the identical time of 3:59.6. The winner by microseconds: Elliott, running his third successive mile in under 4 min. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Dublin's Ron Delany loafed through the second and third quarters but finished flat out to win in the slowpoke time of 4:10 over Hungary's Istvan Rozsavolgyi, who was running his first race...
West across lonely Nullarbor Plain, the cars slewed through mud flats and jounced across frame-cracking bogholes. Nine cars overturned in one nightmare, 557-mile stretch from Albany to Narrogin in Western Australia. Of the 90 cars from eight countries that left Melbourne, only 79 got as far as Perth, all but two losing points all the way. As in most rallies and reliability trials, cars were penalized for passing secret checkpoints too early or too late, for breaking traffic laws and for making any of a long list of repairs...
Watch Out for Falling Rock. In Perth, Australia, detailing his disasters in bankruptcy court. Farmer Wilfred J. Tomlinson, 60, moaned that 700 of his sheep were stolen, as was his $2,225 trotting horse-which had never won a race-that emus had wrecked his crops, his accountant had suffered a heart attack, and white ants had eaten his only record book...
...British government, which had hoped that the release of Makarios-even though he is still exiled from Cyprus-would persuade the Greek Cypriots to moderate their demands, all this was vastly disappointing. Speaking for the Macmillan government in the House of Lords, the Earl of Perth explained that the British government intended to invite "representatives of all communities, including the Greek and Turkish Cypriots," to London to discuss "the internal problems" of Cyprus. Somewhat unhappily his lordship added: "If certain potential representatives go on making the sort of statements they have been making, it seems to me that the meetings...