Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Historically, as "assisted" emigrants, the Canberra's passengers were only following in the wake of the first shipload of British convicts who sailed somewhat less stylishly into Sydney Cove in January 1788. What has astonished officials in Whitehall and Sydney is that Britons are leaving their affluent isle for Australia in greater numbers today than at any time since 1949, when their country was at the grey nadir of postwar austerity. In the first four months of 1963, London's Australia House has received more applications for exile-made-easy than it got in all of 1962. Altogether...
...When you've lived 63 years, you're bound to pick up a bit of sophistication here and there. But I was probably sophisticated when I was five," quipped theatrical Man-for-All-Seasons Noel Coward. Wearing a green felt hat rakishly atilt, Coward flew into Sydney, Australia -out of Beirut, Bangkok and Hong Kong -to steer his musical Sail Away through its opening in Melbourne. Full sail with plans for two new musicals, two plays, a book of stories, and more of his autobiography, the playwright flatly admitted success. "Nothing has adversely affected me," said he, "except...
...Dark Passage (1947) brighten the canon of Bogie films in the 'Forties, which includes a good number of dull patriotic epics (Passage to Marseilles) and gangster potboilers. During the making of the cinema landmarks, a famous team of Bogart, Lauren Bacall ("If you want anything, just whistle."), Sydney Greenstreet, Elisha Cook, Jr., and Peter Lorre gathered together. The swansong of the team, its leader, and the whole crime movie genre came with Beat the Devil (1954), a parody of Maltese Falcon. Since then, fictional gangsters have become sensitive persons with damaged psyches, and the brutal but efficient good guys...
YDCHR members also chose Allen T. Rozelle '66 as first vice-president; Michael B. Staebler '65 as second vice-president; Colin J. Carl '65 as secretary; Louis D. Beer '66 as treasurer; and the following executive committee members: Anthony H. Barash '65, Michael J.M. Galazka '63-3, Sydney J. Key '66, Burt L. Ross '65, Richard L. Smoke '65, and Sally R. Wasserman...
...escapades began early in 1961, when he met a trim young woman identified only as "Miss X" at the zoo in Sydney's Taronga Park and recruited her as a Soviet agent. She seemed willing, but to test her trustworthiness, he conducted a couple of tests, feeding her money-$952 in all-and handing her minor assignments. Once she had to pick up a small cylinder concealed in a water meter; another time she found one hidden in the iron railing of a stairway...