Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blonde, blue-eyed Irja Immonen, 29, a church worker. The Israeli champion, predictably, was a rabbinical student: tense, bearded Yomtov Krasniansky, 24, who crammed for 15 hours a day before the contest. Calmest of the lot was Graham Mitchell, 29, a Seventh-day Adventist and an accountant from Sydney, Australia...
...made a name for himself in the advertising business by working with Albert Lasker and George Washington Hill on American Tobacco's tumultuous Lucky Strike account. As some middle-aged moviegoers still remember, the Hollywood version of The Hucksters, a broad 1947 caricature of the ad game, cast Sydney Greenstreet as a raucous Hill, while Adolphe Menjou portrayed Foote as a harassed, jittery yes man. Said Foote at the time: "I don't think I could impersonate Mr. Menjou very well, and I don't think he could impersonate me very well...
...Taxes. In 1900 a British engineer assayed a Nauru rock being used as a doorstop in his Sydney office, discovered that the island was richly overlaid with phosphate. With Britain, Australia and New Zealand extracting the deposits, royalties have showered down on the Nauruans to the tune of half a million dollars a year. Today the dark-skinned natives pay no taxes but enjoy schools, hospitals, running water, electric lights and movies...
...better mousetrap? No, but some awfully cute mice: Maria Shriver, 8, Robert Kennedy Jr., 10, David Kennedy, 9, Courtney Kennedy, 7, Robert Shriver, 10, and Sydney Lawford, 7. They set up the roadside stand in Hyannis Port to sell postcards with pictures of their Jate uncle and other mementoes to raise funds for the Kennedy Memorial Library. The world beat a path to their door, and they raised $50 from the tourists the first day, but then the whole thing got out of hand, and traffic cops sent the youngsters scampering back to the family...
...companies. Ansett owns them all-together with other assorted properties that make up an $85.5 million empire. Last week Ansett's ubiquitous name flickered onto Australian TV. In Melbourne he opened a $9,000,000 Ansett-owned station, Channel Zero. He has bought into others in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth...