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David B. Rochelson ’05, an English and American literature and language concentrator in Mather House, is an executive editor of The Crimson. This summer he is a researcher-writer for Let’s Go Australia, cruising for freebies from Coffs Harbour to Rockhampton. Unfortunately he’s entering the job market in a brief 10 months, and it’s all down hill from there because he’s already got the best job in the world...
Short (5 ft. 8 in.), wiry Rod Laver was born into a ranching family in Queensland that was so daft over tennis that it moved into the town of Rockhampton to find some stiff competition for the kids. Playing in every tournament in sight, the family (father, mother and three sons) became known as the Laver All-Stars, and young Rod picked up the nickname of "The Rockhampton Rocket." A blushingly shy redhead, Laver has been thrown off stride by the nagging irritations of a match, is now carefully mother-henned during play by Hopman. In action, Laver...
North past Rockhampton, the cars churned up clouds of dust and ran down dozens of blinded kangaroos and possums. From tropical Townsville west to Mount Isa, on one of the worst stretches of road in Australia, they wallowed in talcum-fine sand or crunched across sharp shale that ripped tires to ribbons. Rocks tore into gas tanks and crumpled fenders. Two cars turned over. A Ford Zephyr plowed into a cow, tossed the animal into the air and caught it on the motor hood. Zephyr and cow were flattened beyond repair...