Word: european
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fourteen years after a war in which the country narrowly escaped being overrun by the Japanese, Australia's "populate or perish" program has brought 1,400,000 European settlers to its shores. Half of them are "New Australians" (meaning Continental Europeans), who are changing the look and sounds of a nation whose people are rugged in their insularity and proud of the common bond of their British Isles origin...
...evidence indicated suicide, Bandera's followers were convinced that he had been tricked or overpowered into taking the cyanide, grimly printed in the funeral announcement: "Died a hero's death at the Bolshevists' hands." And last week in Munich's Waldfriedhof, as 1,500 Eastern European exiles watched silently, Bandera's coffin, draped with the blue-and-yellow banner of Ukrainian independence, was lowered into a simple grave hallowed by an urn full of Ukrainian soil...
...brother in teen-age recitals that astounded critics with their power and perception. When she was 18 she married Lindsay Nicholas, brother of Yehudi's wife Nola, and retired with him to a 24,000-acre sheep ranch in Australia. Hephzibah returned briefly to the U.S. and European concert circuit in 1947, carefully scheduling her tour, she explained, so that she would be back in Australia "in time for the lambing season...
September, at the prestigious Sao Paulo Bienal, the jury picked unsung Manabu Mabe for the $1,150 award as Brazil's best painter. This month Mabe ventured into the European arena and walked off with top honors at Paris' first biennial (for painters under 35): the Prix Braun for the best "painter in oils" and a six months' scholarship for study in Paris. Manabu Mabe, a Japanese-born farm hand who had sold only one painting in his life (for $12 to a friend), found himself with a sellout show in Rio de Janeiro; dealers from Caracas...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-A documentary drama, 35 Rue du Marche, recalls the devotion of a Belgian priest, Nobel Prizewinning Dominique Georges Henri Pire, to his self-imoosed task: providing homes for European D.P.s...