Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Jamison Handy was 20, he helped develop the American crawl. Reading a Sydney newspaper's fuzzy description of the Australian crawl, with which Down Under swimmers were then smashing records, young Handy tried to imitate the stroke he had never seen. The Australian crawl was such a sensational step forward that some kind of American imitation was inevitable; other Americans besides Jam Handy tried their own adaptations. The U.S. style that finally emerged combined the double over-arm stroke with a loose-leg kick from the hips instead of the knees. Using it, Handy won three national free...
...sight at Tanforan (in his stall) but not out of mind was Shannon II-a horse close to the heart of every California race fan. Next to Citation, he is probably the fastest horse in the world today. Shannon is a seven-year-old bay stallion, Australian by birth and friendly as an overgrown puppy. Unlike Citation, everything about him is controversial-even his pedigree...
Spaewife was pinned to the mare, and eventually she was bred to an Australian stallion. Six years ago, a weedy yearling-reportedly one of her descendants-was led into an auction ring and knocked down for ?400. That was how Peter Riddle, a veteran Australian horseman, came by Shannon...
...first bid was 15,000 guineas ($51,000). According to legend, a tipsy hack driver, without a quarter in his pocket, kept raising the bidding until it reached $100,000. Actually, 75 seconds after the bidding opened, Australian Industrialist W. J. Smith got the horse for about $88,000. Two months later, Shannon headed for fabled California, where $100,000 purses grow on bushes...
Says Bernadotte's relief adviser, burly, Australian-born Sir Raphael Cilento: "Somebody's got to decide pretty quickly whether they're going to look after these people or let them die." At week's end it looked as if U.N. would get the job. British and U.S. delegates were planning a resolution asking the General Assembly to sponsor an Arab relief program...