Motoring With Leonard Ward Indy 500 Drama and Turbine Cars
A race filled with crashes and rain delays shaped by Leonard Ward and the turbine Engined Lotuses as Unser led later laps. Offenhauser powered cars surged back with a surprising comeback winning positions. The article notes Ford V eight power against turbo blowers with the Offys finishing first and third and Gurney earning a second in an Eagle likely with a Weslake engine.
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Terry
Joe
Leonard
Lotus
Unser
Ford
Offenhauser
Offys
Dan Gurney
Eagle
Castrol Safety Drive heats set for Canberra event
The Canberra Sporting Car Club hosts a heat of the 1968 Castrol Safety Drive on August 11 for drivers under 25. A $2,000 prize goes to the winning driver, with about $1,800 in additional prizes for placegetters and heat winners. Entries open June 1 to July 1 through Canberra new car dealers.
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Canberra Sporting Car Club
Canberra
Sydney
Bathurst
Wollongong
Newcastle
Bob Edwards
Michael Firth
Festival film fare from Canberra coverage
A Canberra cinema report praises the Sydney Film Festival offerings and ahead screenings as a preview of international cinema arriving locally. It highlights Per Oscarsson in Hunger, director Henning Carlsen, and a Danish Norwegian Swedish co production, noting the festival’s role in promoting thought provoking entertainment and future releases.
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Canberra
Marienbad
Sydney
Per Oscarsson
Henning Carlsen
Denmark
Norway
Sweden
Hanson
Gunner Lindblom
Oscarsson
Krystof Komeda
Skolimowski
Cannes
Oslo
Television listings and program notes fragment
A fragmented TV schedule shows channels listing school pro grams, news briefs, children's features, and a few prime time items. Notable items include Here’s Humphrey, Mickey Mouse, Beauty and the Beast, and a French Panorama documentary, with late evening closes and general station IDs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Channel 7
Humphrey
Featherston
Mickey Molse
Anne
Mehali
NAVY
Peyton Placcorolation Sree
Rome’s Andzia Roman exhibition at Mac Wabe Theatre
Robin Wallace-Crabbe reviews Andzia Romans first solo show at Mac Wabe Galleries Theatre Centre Gallery from June 15, noting bold confident brushwork and European expressionist influence. He highlights family themes with comic tragic figures, large heads and hanging appendages in a brushy, atmospheric space, while questioning future cohesion and control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handzia Roman
Macwabe
Theatre Centre Gallery
Figure It Out Puzzle At The Party And The Noisy Gallery
Mary waited as the boys returned. Dick claims more than twenty girls, Don counters less than twenty, Jim stakes a middle ground. The piece also critiques an art exhibition noting enlarged heads, expressionist influences, and the predictable sentiment seen in the faces despite varied brushwork.
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Mary
Don
Jim
Prophet Hint in Handzia Roman’s Sentimental Figures
A critique notes Handzia Roman’s child figures rely on stock cute imagery, urging deeper exploration beyond safe subjects. The reviewer cites the painting The Prophet as a sign of possible, less reassuring, but potentially richer direction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handzia Roman
Prophet
Midnight to Darn Shor-Don Dire Sam 6 Breakfast Session
Radio schedule fragment lists morning to afternoon programs on 2CA and similar stations. Notes include news, weather, local updates, musical programs, and parliamentary coverage with various hosts and times. Names such as Frenk Chamberlaie and Alan Fitegersid appear in listings.
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Sam
Don Dire
Sesson
Soon
Muskie
Alan Fitegersid
Deveson Peop
Focwii
Mair Nedows
Fue Bray
Ieboopitas
Sk & Ec
Eteather
Burson Hopert
Lee
Macquarie
Oamalas
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Lyell Street
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Beazley & Bruce Pty Ltd
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Toyota
Macquarie Gallery
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Australia
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The
Wintergarden Rose Bay
Europe
USA
Sjoberg
Karin Mansdotter
Pontus
Christiania
Channel
MAGIC
Ria
By Robin Wallace-Crabbe
Andzia Roman
Iolanthe
Canberra Theatre
Bourchiers & D.d's
RAME
APE Recorder
Warmth Center Cinema
Miles Forman
Billie Burke
Sunday Telegraph
Orson Welles
Radio
Musica Antiqua
Williams
Muse
Haydn
Maritime Friends
Blue Hills
A. OD. Black
Stock Exchange
Scherals Ae
Eine Billy
Lot Hermenes
Newir
the Orchestra. Com
Percy Faith Orchestra
Parliament House
Fee Parliement House
Irra
Gurstion Beles
Arch Fao Kindy
Pius Ory
Cate
Anne Godfrey-Smith
Jon Stephens
Childers Street Hall
David Jones
Bourchiers
Gueaneetar
Weisth
Ance
Stanley Rows
Ben Uted
Patty Dube
Jim Backus
Jane Greer
Illie
Bob Hope
Phyllis Diller
Shirley Eaton
Jill St John
Cliff Robertson
Capitol
Civic
David Jones Maldens
Queanbeyan
Theatre
Sidney Fe ‘Er
Od Steiger
Capitol Cinema
Duntroon
Burns Highland Band
Canberra Showgrounds
ABC
G.P.O
Sik
OE. Pliuals
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Seesen
Earstin Roberts
SY Kendal
Theat
Civic Theatre
City
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Capitol Cinema — Manera
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