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Australia, which has been passed up by most tourists in the past, expects that the 1956 Olympics will bring in many. Visitors follow the relaxed, happy life of Australians, splash in the surf that pounds its beaches, and go to see the original Teddy bears at the Koala Bear Sanctuary in Brisbane. More adventurous types can fly out to Hayman Island (round trip: $209) on the Great Barrier Reef, where there is a good hotel ($5 per day) and some of the world's best skindiving and big game fishing, or go on a three-week hunting trip (cost...
...town productions, from Munich, Germany to Pocatello, Idaho. At the Met she moved into many of the important second leads that inevitably fall to a contralto's lot. But to get her chance at the role she coveted most, she had to make a big splash overseas...
...from the U.S. Air Force recently went a brief announcement: the U.S. was sending the first North American F-100 Super Sabrejet fighters to units in Europe; three demonstration planes were already overseas, with full squadrons to follow soon. The news caused little splash, yet it was one of the most significant announcements of the jet age. It meant that the whole new breed of radically advanced "century" series jets was coming into service...
When The Snake Pit appeared with a splash of acclaim in 1949, its brutal realism blinded the public eye and aroused a good deal of righteous indignation. Six years of national reflection on the inadequacy of mental hospitals has brought little reform. Hearsay from PBH Volunteers seems to refute accusations that the movie was more imaginative than truthful. Reconsideration shows that it has both qualities...
...With a splash of purple-worded publicity ("breakfast in London . . . predinner swim at Waikiki"), U.S. commercial aviation last week made its long-awaited move to jet-propelled aircraft. Pan American World Airways signed contracts for 25 Douglas DC-8s and 20 Boeing 707 four-jet airliners. It was the first deal to buy U.S. commercial jets. Total price: $269 million, the biggest in airline history. The deal is certain to be followed by plane purchase orders from other carriers. National Airlines is expected to sign for six DC-8s on which it took a verbal option last August. Other shoppers...