Word: queensland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rarely since the Viet Nam War had an issue provoked Australians to stage such a large and angry public protest. Late last month 8,000 citizens linked arms to form an eight-mile chain along a Queensland beach to demonstrate against a three-month-old pilots' strike that has all but crippled the * country. Said Gabrielle Gibbs, a homemaker who organized the protest: "This incredible waste of human, financial and emotional resources must be stopped...
...engineer, Norman grew up in Townsville, Australia, in subtropical Queensland. The prevailing Australian ethos held that "if you don't get hit, it isn't a sport," so Norman played Australian Rules football, essentially a riot with goalposts. When he was 16 his mother, a low-handicap amateur of Finnish descent, gave him two of Nicklaus' books. The boy read them and decided to give golf a try. It soon became clear that the late starter was a prodigy. Greg's father Merv recalls that he made "phenomenal progress," shooting par within 18 months of first picking up a golf...
...years back, during a pro-celebrity tournament at Gleneagles in Scotland, a wind-aided Norman drive measured 483 yds. Under Earp's tutelage Norman began cleaning up in amateur tournaments, and at 19 he took a $28-a-week job as assistant pro at the Royal Queensland Golf Club. There, playing for large sums with local high rollers, he learned to perform under pressure...
...Queensland, beautiful one day, perfect the next," burbles a middle-aged vacationer in a tourist ad for the state in northeastern Australia that has one of the country's most glorious coastlines. In a version written by Australian Comic Gerry Connolly for a TV comedy show, a beaming Japanese businessman delivers the punch line, "Ah, Queensland, beautiful one day, Japanese the next...
...urban hotels and shoreline properties, and by a 48% upsurge, to 215,600, in Japanese visitors in 1987. Last February, for the first time, Japanese arriving in Australia outnumbered tourists from any other country. According to a report by Lloyds Bank, 70% of land earmarked for development on Queensland's Gold Coast, a 25-mile strip of sun and fun, is controlled by Japanese interests...