Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other wide survey is the WORLD BUSINESS section's study of the international economy, which called for reporting from TIME correspondents in Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Rome, Athens, Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Teheran, Tokyo, Nairobi, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Rio, Salisbury, Sydney and Moscow. Their reports, analyzed by Writer Everett Martin and Senior Editor Edward L. Jamieson, added up to an encouraging conclusion about the trend of the economy in the free world...
...raft, four months and 6,500 miles out of Callao, Peru. "I wanted to show that a 70-year-old could do what men years younger would never dream of trying and couldn't dp anyway," said he, and prepared to sail on another 2,700 miles to Sydney, Australia...
...times more powerful. These giant outbursts appeared to be associated with sunspots which could be seen on the sun's surface with optical telescopes. In 1949, J. P. Wild and L. L. McCready made the first sweep-frequency observations of the sun at Dapto, Australia, 20 miles south of Sydney. Instead of recording radiation at a single of fixed frequency, their receivers were able to record intensity at all frequencies from 70 to 130 megacycles per second (later the band was extended from 20 to 240 megacycles). By this means it became possible to observe fluctuations of solar outbursts...
...position, he says, is "unemployed parson" and thus he has more time for travel. So Lord Geoffrey Fisher, 76, retired Archbishop of Canterbury, flew into Sydney with his wife to visit their son. "We've come to Australia to see him and his wife before they've forgotten they're both English," he explained. As for the rest of his time since retiring, Lord Fisher has been doing what he likes-"going to schools and universities to give talks and be heckled...
...voted against a motion argued by Stanley Baldwin, he was warned by the visiting Prime Minister that "intellectualism is a sin and could lead a young man to a fate worse than death." Notwithstanding Baldwin, Rab became a Cambridge don. He deserted the common room for Commons after marrying Sydney Courtauld, a textile heiress, whose long illness and death in 1954 visibly sapped his political energies...