Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spinal Column Right. In Sydney, Australia, Robert McGrath won $938 compensation after he told a district court that, during a military training course, he had injured his back coming to attention...
...Britain. But stolid, unimaginative Bob Menzies himself has never been personally popular. His chronic testiness ("He must be drunk or paid to come here as a pest," he angrily shouted at a heckler) has not helped him much. When his car was spattered with eggs in Sydney, even the usually progovernment Melbourne Herald blandly refused to remonstrate. "At election time," it said, "it is permissible to be cynical. Indeed it is almost obligatory...
Last week, as 5,400,000 voters trooped to the polls to cast their compulsory ballots (penalty for not voting: ?2), Sydney's Sun-Herald sourly editorialized: "The electors have a poor choice." Labor's divided condition helped give Menzies a majority in the House, and a gain of from two to four seats in the Senate...
Grass Widow. In Sydney, Australia, Mary Stephens won a divorce after testifying that her husband preferred to sleep on the lawn...
...series of raucous cocktail-lounge press conferences in Sydney. Leo downed double Scotches, tickled giggling waitresses, and made wildly conflicting statements about Elliott ("He's a sonofabitch . . . I love the guy"). He pursued Elliott to Melbourne, on arrival handed newsmen a classically misspelled statement. It attacked the "imberciles" who had pictured him as a "charlton," whined: "Am I to be sacrificed on the alter of prejudice?'' By this time Australians were increasingly suspicious that Leavitt's antics were chiefly designed to publicize another Western Promotions venture-the tour of "Goose" Tatum's basketball team...