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...North Sydney, athletic (5 ft. 8 in., 151 Ibs.) Sylvia thrashed to world butterfly records for 220 yds. and 200 meters in 2:40.3. At the national championships in Hobart, Tasmania, she chased Australia's lisa Konrads so closely in the 880-yd. free style that 14-year-old lisa broke her own world record, explained: 'Syl was on me tail." Last week, at her farewell appearance in Melbourne, versatile Sylvia tackled the individual medley event (requiring backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and free-style laps), set world records at 440 yds. and 400 meters with a 5:41.1 clocking...
Author Shute, 59, who was an aeronautical engineer and military pilot, this time returns to his first love, flying. His Canadian-born hero, Johnny Pascoe, has been barnstorming the world since 1915 and, now in his 60s, operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers...
Blended Spirit. In Launceston, Tasmania, after police caught Minister for Police Charles Aylett drinking in a bar after hours, he was fined $5 in spite of his contention that "Parliament makes laws to cover extreme cases, but Parliament always considers that the law will be administered with discretion...
...pleasures of their own platypusary in New York's Bronx Zoo, where each had its own little swimming pool and private burrows. And though there was a wooden barrier built between them, Cecil knew how to get around-an achievement fostered by zoo authorities-in season. For outside Tasmania and Australia, these two furry mammals were the only platypuses in captivity, and everybody hoped that one day Cecil and Penelope would produce platykittens...
...Bronx Zoo was still scouting the 250-acre compound. They hoped that Penelope had not ended up in the Bronx River or the Jersey flats. Cecil just scratched his stomach and fed his ego. Where once there were two, he was now the only platypus in captivity-outside Tasmania and Australia...