Word: sydney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporting on the land of wonder in 1960 was the task of Brisbane Stringer Fred Hubbard, a transplanted Chicago newspaperman who has spent 13 years covering Australia, and Hong Kong Bureau Chief Stanley Karnow. They spent three weeks in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra interviewing scores of businessmen, actors, writers, architects, economists and government officials. Says Karnow, "I personally was so impressed with the country's potential that before I departed, I left material proof of my faith in Australia's future: I invested a modest sum in four Australian companies...
...boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral played to capacity...
They (with their New Zealand neighbors) bloodily proved their loyalty at Gallipoli. But their suspicion of authority was frequently uninhibited: in 1896, John Norton, editor of the Sydney Truth, toasted Queen Victoria's good health and long life, "if only to keep her rascal of a turf-swindling, cardsharping, wife-debauching, boozing, rowdy of a son, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, off the throne...
...have a near-octogenarian friend who maintains that when he lived in the Sydney suburb of Balmain as a youngster, he was fascinated by the family's female servant...
...Sydney, New South Wales...