Word: fiji
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wide Yawn. With all its natural attractions, New Zealand hopes to attract more foreign tourists. Only 113,000 visited New Zealand last year (15,000 of them Americans), and most of them have to fly prop planes from Australia or Fiji to get there. So far, there has been little reason to come: most New Zealand hotels are dilapidated, service is poor, almost all bars close at 6 p.m. daily, there is practically no night life and a New Zealand Sunday is one wide yawn. The government is determined to improve matters, hopes that it can raise tourist income from...
...reason is the popularity of scuba diving; hunting and collecting fish as Chiropractor Roberts does with his slurp gun is much more rewarding than spearing them. Another major factor has been the jet age, which has brought the coral reefs of Fiji and other faraway sources of exotic fish within a few hours of the U.S. This shorter travel time, plus new sleep drugs which make fish inert, thus reducing their oxygen intake by two-thirds, means that more fish can be transported in less water-and hence sold more cheaply...
Britain's blizzards were oceans behind as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured their sunnier Commonwealth lands Down Under on a 40-day, 30,000-mile trip. It was the first time in nearly a decade that far-off Fiji had glimpsed its Queen. Elizabeth, looking cool as ever in the 105° simmer, responded by quaffing a bowl of kava, the muddy national beverage made of mashed roots. Then, before boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise on to New Zealand and Australia, she bowed to accept the traditional bouquet from one of her barefoot subjects, while...
Expedition (ABC. 7-7:30 p.m.). The firewalkers of Fiji are shown in action doing the South Pacific hotfoot...
...doubtless many givees who will not be able to put it down, there are a good many more who will not be able to pick it up. But for amateur entomologists who can agree with the author that the Xixuthrus Heros Heer, a 5-in. pincher from the Fiji Islands, is handsome, the book could not be better...