Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dropped in on Australia's 4,500 troops in South Viet Nam, conferred with Saigon's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. At the Manila conference last month, Holt was vigorously visible everywhere. Before that, Johnson helped Holt's election chances mightily with his own brief visit to Sydney...
Harold Holt is a Pacific man. Indeed, his favorite pastime is diving under the Pacific with snorkel and wet suit to spear fish or enjoy the submarine scenery. Often enough, that scenery includes one or another of his sheilas-in-law-the beautiful wives of his three stepsons. The Sydney-born son of a theatrical manager, Holt was a prize essayist and cricketer at Melbourne University, came to the Australian House of Representatives in 1935 and became a faithful supporter of Sir Robert Menzies during World War II. Like most Australians, Holt enlisted at the outbreak...
...years. The British have tried 16 times, the Canadians twice, the Australians once-all have failed. Hope still springs, as long as somebody springs for the price (upwards of $300,000) of a sleek 12-meter yacht. Next September Australia will go again. After trial races in Sydney last week, Top Skipper Jock Sturrock, 51, was eager to boast that "we've got a boat that can win the America...
...Trenches. Sydney's welcome was even wilder-too wild, in fact. At the airport, the President enthused: "You've treated us like we really belong here." "You do, you do!" several men shouted in reply. Most Aussies plainly agreed. Cheering and waving, more than a million of them lined Johnson's eight-mile route into the city. But as his motorcade approached Hyde Park, several hundred demonstrators were waiting. They were well prepared. Australian intelligence reported that they had intercepted messages from Melbourne Communists advising sympathizers in Sydney on how to disrupt the President's visit...
...holding a trench under heavy Turkish assault for two hours, in World War II was a brilliant field officer, leading Anzac troops to a stunning victory in Libya before returning home in 1941 to gird against an invasion by Japan that happily never came; after a long illness; in Sydney...