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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Devoted to the outdoor life-and to every known form of gambling from horse racing to two-up-white Australians seemed to have taken over the philosophy of the aborigines, who lived entirely in the present, referred to both past and future as "the dreaming." In an area almost the size of the U.S., Australia in the 19303 had less than the population of London-and a falling birth rate. It had no machine-tool industry, had never built an aircraft or auto engine, and because of varying track gauges, did not even have a transcontinental railroad...
...Breakthrough. Australian workers not only do not strike as often, but they are, by common consent, working harder than ever before, and in the past five years productivity has increased 5% annually. In part, this reflects the impact of the New Australians, who now make up 20% of the labor force, and who, in their anxiety to build new lives, have flocked to the tough jobs in the steel, automotive and transport industries. But the Old Australian hustles more, too, and sees his own stake in prosperity...
...though he still calls himself "an unrepentant supporter of Anthony Eden" and insists that Australians "remain the Queen's men." Menzies has not let sentimental allegiance to Britain blind him to the fact that "empire defense" is a thing of the past. In 1952, despite Britain's unconcealed irritation at being excluded. Menzies led Australia into the ANZUS pact with the U.S. And he makes no bones about expecting ever closer relations with the U.S. Says he: "We don't expect America to pull our chestnuts out of the fire ... But the U.S. has developed responsibility marching...
...over Bomarc when word came from Washington that the U.S. Air Force, worried that Bomarc's test failures would delay its operational status until too near the end of the diminishing bomber era, proposed a sweeping switch in spending to other defensive hardware (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the past, Diefenbaker had properly insisted that all Bomarc's failures were minor "nickel-and-dime" malfunctions, and pointed out that the U.S. was spending $500 million on it this year, while Canada had committed only $15 million for work on its two bases...
...debate about "a Roman Catholic in the White House" continues against the background of a significant fact: U.S. Roman Catholics have greatly increased both in number and influence during the past 50 years. The prospect of Catholics' becoming the majority group may once have horrified U.S. Protestants. To what extent that climate of opinion has changed is demonstrated by the New Republic with a symposium of three experts: Congregationalist John C. Bennett, dean of Manhattan's Interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; Unitarian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., professor emeritus of history at Harvard and Pulitzer-prize-winning author...