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...million years old. Impactites from the Clearwater Lake crater in northern Quebec and from far-off Libya have the same age. Other tests show that tektites found in Czechoslovakia pair up with impactites from an ancient meteor crater in Germany. Both are 15 million years old. An impactite from Tasmania is 700,000 years old, the same age as tektites found in Australia, Indonesia and Southeast Asia...
...born in Tasmania of British parents, is a British citizen...
Since the liens were filed, there has been some digging done into Galvin's background. It still doesn't go very deep. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, worked as a null messenger for a time, was fired as a classified advertising salesman from a newspaper in Melbourne. Australia, because the management thought girls sold the ads better. He headed for Hong Kong to seek his fortune. He apparently found it after World War II in the vague area of "mining and transportation," it is said. He has a company in Malaya called Eastern Mining and Metals...
Next: Asia & Air. Today, after 60 years in business, the Open Air Campaigners have 20 paid workers ($45 a week), 200 volunteers and 14 mobile pulpits in Australia. Since World War II, branches have opened in Queensland, Tasmania and New Zealand, as well as in Toronto and Chicago, and the Campaigners hope to tackle Asia next. The O.A.C. is designed as a task force to hit all evangelical targets-factories, parks, lunch counters and busy streets. This year the group will tie up with Aerial Missions, an offshoot of the U.S. Missionary Aviation Fellowship, to reach the big cattle...
...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 Tasman, discoverer of Tasmania, had paid a visit to Tonga way back in 1643. Fascinated, the Queen is now undecided as to whether the royal treasury would be strained more by the cost of microfilming the records in Australia or by dispatching a scholar to Sydney for a year's work...