Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rate of some 1,800,000 tons a year. The only cloud on the horizon is the fact that by 1995 the 5,263-acre island will be stripped of phosphate (used for fertilizer), leaving a big, barren pothole in the Pacific, 2,500 miles northeast of Sydney. Then Nauru's dark-skinned population will have to move to another, less tight little island...
...always big, and he'll eat anything-including the intrepid angler if he gets half a chance. In Australia, where 115 swimmers have been killed by sharks in the past 65 years, the shark has long been considered the king of game fish. "Nothing compares to it," insists Sydney Businessman Peter Goadby. "It's wonderful to pit yourself against a creature so big and powerful, so perfectly designed for his position in life." In South Africa, where surf casters hook into 700-lb. sharks close to Durban's most popular bathing beaches, Electrician Cecil Jacobs, whose catch...
...Died. Sydney Chaplin, 80, Charlie's half-brother (his elder by four years) and former business manager, an actor in his own right, who appeared with Charlie in Mack Sennett's early Keystone Cops comedies, starred in the first of four film versions of Charley's Aunt in 1925, ended his movie career in 1939 after assisting his brother in The Great Dictator, spending his remaining years in Switzerland and France; of heart and other ailments; in Nice...
...team's difficulties over the vacation were partly a result of tougher opposition. Last year, instead of meeting Virginia, Navy, and Maryland on its swing through the South, the team took on Hampden-Sydney, Lynchburg, and Johns Hopkins...
There have been other changes at the Sun; Editor Sydney Jacobson has been moved into the job of editorial director and replaced by his assistant Richard Dinsdale. But in the end, the paper's survival hinges on how long Press Lord King wants to keep it going, and he does not seem to have his heart in it. That problem was summed up by Christopher Booker in Spectator: "Few magazines or newspapers have ever really been successful unless they have begun with one or two men who really, in their hearts, wanted to say something -and really wanted...