Robert Maxwell Arrives in Canberra From Global Publishing
Former Czech underground member and publishing mogul Robert Maxwell, 40, arrived in Canberra yesterday. He joined the Czech resistance in 1939, fled to Britain, served in WWII earning the Military Cross, and later established a scientific publishing company. He has traveled two million miles and has written Information USSR Information U.K. Information U.S.A. with Information Australia in progress.
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Canberra
Robert Maxwell
Maxwell
France
Britain
Normandy
Montgomery
Ussr
Information
U.K
U.S.A
Australia
Australian Navy tests helicopters in submarine hunt
The Royal Australian Navy conducted its first helicopter aided submarine hunt near Nowra. Two helicopters flew eight sorties about 30 miles out, with the destroyer Anzac and frigate Quick Watch supporting. Submarine Tapir served as the quarry as training began for the anti submarine squadron led by Lt Commander B F Matthews.
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Neweapons
R.A.N
Australia
Navy
Senator Gorton
Gorton
Royal Navy
Tapir
Anzac
Quickwatch
Naval Air Station
Nowra
Sydney
LnCdr
B. F. Matthews
Hmas
Melbourne
Cuba Starts 1963 Sugar Harvest With 1000 Volunteers
In Havana the first volunteer group of cane cutters for the 1963 Cuban sugar harvest went into the fields. The group numbers about 1000 people, including roughly 500 civil service workers and union members organized in Havana.
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Cuba
Havana
Sturrock Named Top Australian
The Chairman announced Sturrock as the top Australian with unanimous support. Governor Brooks will present a plaque at an Australia Day Council meeting on Friday. Sturrock, long a leading figure in Australian yachting and director of a Port Melbourne timber firm, called the honor a great privilege, noting previous winners Sir MacFarlane Burnet and Joan Sutherland.
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Norman Martin
Dallas Brooks
Sturrock
Port Melbourne
MacFarlane “Burnet
Joan Sutherland
Record year for Australian airline traffic reaches new high
The Trans-Australia Airlines general manager announced 1962 results showing a record 1,175,604 passengers carried, up 4.2 percent. Cargo and mail totals rose with express at 4,056,572 pounds and air cargo at 39,096,260 pounds. Papua New Guinea charter flights boosted cargo and passenger totals, while average passenger distance reached 484.5 miles and total passenger miles rose 3.5 percent to a record 569,531,161. First class travelers totaled 737,739 and tourist 437,865.
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Melbourne
Trans-Australia Airlines
TAA
Ryland
T-A.a
Papua-New Guinea
T.A.A
Harvest of Wheat Delayed by Storm Wrecks ACT Crop
A.C.T. harvest is delayed as Deputy Director T P Taylor says weather has slowed progress since last Sunday. At least half the wheat remains to be harvested and prices will fall the longer the delay. Farmers expected a record yield before Christmas, but mid December storms cut the crop quality.
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Agriculture and Stock Section
Department of Interior
T. P. Taylor
New Attempt to End Strike in New York and Elsewhere
Senator Wayne Morse leads a three member committee in a new round of talks to settle the 26 day waterside workers strike. The effort is described as a last opportunity before a Kennedy congress update. The 41 day old New York newspaper strike shows no signs of breaking.
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New York
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Kennedy
Congress
Senator Morse
America
New
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