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...night before it had taken Court a wee bit longer to beat fellow Perth, Australia, resident Lesley Hunt, 6-3, 6-4, but all in all there was very little wasted motion as Court advances to what looks like a semifinal tussle with 4th seeded Rosemary Casals and a finals duel with Billie Jean King...
...internal battle that toppled controversial Prime Minister John Gorton, 61. McMahon's political skills seemed to desert him as he tried to rule the country. He waffled over decisions; and often after he finally made them, he had to reverse them. His campaign performance was equally uninspiring. In Perth he told a rally that his government was looking forward to "increasing opportunities for unemployment." At Melbourne he pledged: "We will honor the problems we have made...
Rock Mass for Love (Decca, $5.98). A live recording of a celebration last March in St. George's Cathedral. Perth. Australia, presided over by the Dean of Perth, the Very...
...newcomers, increasingly from Italy and Yugoslavia as well as Britain, have given Australia a much more vivid and varied texture, and have made its society more tolerant through diversity. A fourth of the populations of Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth are foreign born. Foreign manners and mores have affected the restaurants, shops, services, styles and architecture; Sydney and Melbourne now have a variety of eating places to compare with New York or San Francisco. Seventy foreign-language newspapers are published in Australia; Italian, Dutch and Greek clubs can be found everywhere, and the outdoor café has become a part...
...known that northwestern Australia contained mountains of ore, but until recently they lacked the technology required for extracting it: chiefly, automated tools and, to make life bearable for the miners, air conditioning. The present boom can be traced largely to the vision of one remarkable man, Charles Court, a Perth accountant turned politician who served as Western Australia's Minister for Industrial Development from 1960 until this year. "We must develop our great empty spaces," Court said, "before we can say we really own Australia...