Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prosperous Sydney poultry farmer, Mackenzie earns a good living by chicken sexing, the occult craft of sorting out fluffy, day-old chicks by sex. A crack schoolboy rower, Mackenzie took up the individual sculls four months before the 1956 Olympics, learned fast enough to win a silver medal...
Outside of the royal family, the only person in the British Commonwealth who rates being addressed as Her Majesty is Salote, the 6-ft. 3-in., 280-lb. Queen of the Tonga. Last week Her Majesty, 60, winged in from her Polynesian archipelago to Sydney, Australia, to have a historical ball in that city's famed Cape Mitchell Library. Her scholarly project was to fill in the gaps in Tonga's archives. She pored over papers dating back to 1797, examined the journals of Circumnavigator James Cook, who first saw Tonga in 1773, duly noted that Explorer Abel...
...Florida's A. Sydney Herlong Jr. used part of his stationery fund to buy eight pieces of luggage for $204.80; Pennsylvania's George Rhodes bought seven umbrellas in a single day from the same fund; an unnamed Congressman bought $25 worth of yacht-club flags, and still another had an "original oil of a nude lady" framed...
Oddly enough, Soprano Sutherland started out in an entirely different style, hoping to be a Wagnerian singer. The daughter of a Sydney tailor, she took her first voice lessons from her mother, a "nonprofessional mezzo-soprano," won a number of local competitions and with the prize money decamped for London. At Covent Garden auditions, she learned that the Wagner repertory was not for her: "My voice really isn't heavy enough for that, and I soon understood that I'd been forcing it along a road that was wrong...
...York Yacht Club accepted the challenge of Australia's Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron for an America's Cup match in the summer of 1962. But, recognizing Britain's role as a repeated Cup challenger (14 of 16 previous matches, with Canada a two-timer), the yacht club trustees endorsed a proposal by the Duke of Edinburgh that the next challenge be a joint Commonwealth enterprise. If Australia is agreeable, elimination matches will be held among Commonwealth nations, with the winner to meet the U.S.'s 12-meter champion...