Word: queensland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union members call them, "new blokes." Although some have slowed their work to the notorious prewar "Australian crawl," the overall impact of ambitious immigrants has been to force the Old Australians to hump harder. Eager, gifted immigrant children are grabbing top honors in Melbourne and Adelaide high schools. In Queensland, Italians have become a major factor in the sugar-cane industry. Two Dutch immigrants are marketing a new plastic film to seal the bottom of sheep-station ponds and thereby save the precious water in the outback from leaking away. Australia's world-beating teenage swimmers, John and Ilsa...
...Singapore last week, just before sailing for Australia, where he plans to study agriculture at Queensland University, Eric Mellor donned shorts, turban and sword and entered the temple to take five sips of holy water and repeat five times in Punjabi, "The victory is of God.'' The Granth Sahib was opened at random; the first letter on the page was H, and Mellor was asked to choose a Punjabi name with this initial. His choice: Harbans, meaning "a member of God's family...
With more and more people clamoring for an ever-dwindling number of blue-chip pictures, the art market still soared. Sotheby's, the London auction house, last week registered a new high for a Picasso by knocking down his pretty nude, entitled La Belle Hollandaise, to the Queensland Art Gallery of Brisbane, Australia for $154,000. Back in 1905, Picasso painted the picture on a trip to Holland, apparently gave it to a traveling companion in payment for his half of a hotel bill...
This week Evangelist Graham will carry his crusade to Hobart and Launceston in Tasmania, then put in a fortnight's rest on Queensland's sunny Gold Coast before beginning a New Zealand crusade on March...
Glassed Chance. In Brisbane, the Queensland Division of the Australian Optometrical Association offered free eye examinations to the 34 umpires and linesmen who will judge the Davis Cup tennis matches in December...