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MELBUURNE 2 At last. As the spires of Melbourne and the crowd on Princes Pier drew nearer, it seemed as though we'd burst with anxiety and exhilaration. For many months we had been looking forward to this day-l December l956. We were proud that we had been selected to represent the United States Navy on such an important occasion, and we had worked 'hard to prove that we were deserving of the once-in-a-lifetime trip. We had read in our papers and magazines at home about the far-off Olympics and famous athletes we were sending U down under, we had experienced the bleak discauragement of the temporary cancellation, we had come four times the distance from New York to Gibraltar across the widest ocean in the world to a land less than iz of us had ever visited before, and now that we had reached our goal it seemed almost hard to believe. Melbourne! Australia!! We were the first official Navy visitors to Melbourne since l952. Pictures of our ship-and of our people-were splashed across the newspapers even before we got ashore. We had heard much about the friendliness of the Australians, but we weren't quite prepared for the flood of hospitality which im- mediately engulfed us, 3
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