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...Joining South Viet Nam (621,000 men), South Korea (46,000), Australia (4,500), New Zealand (150) and the "noncombatant" Philippines...
...that he taught at Manhattan's Walden School. There, Lewis developed a profound respect for the spontaneity and grace with which youngsters can compose poetry. In 1964, he spent ten months on a tour of English-speaking countries that took him through the British Isles, Africa, India, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Canada and most of the United States. From schools, from the secret notebooks of children too shy to recite, and from the mouths of children too young to write, he collected 3,000 poems or almost-poems, the best of which constitute Miracles...
...grey Victorian world, Chichester became a loner in a home dominated by a clergyman father who "squashed any enthusiasm," and in private schools where the punishment for a misdemeanor was a whipping. So in later life-after careers as a sheep-shearer, gold prospector and land speculator in New Zealand and a mapmaker in England-Chichester was struck with sea fever. Though he thought "the whole prospect of the Atlantic so appalling that I can't face it," he nonetheless thrilled to "the moan of the wind in the rigging," loved drawing "deep, mad breaths" in midocean...
...Zealand's national elections, Viet Nam was also the No. 1 issue, though 'Prime Minister Keith J. Holyoake has thus far committed only a battery of 150 men. His opposition insists that that is 150 too many, but Holyoake took to the stump to warn his countrymen: "The whole of New Zealand would hang its head in shame if we withdrew our troops." Unashamedly, New Zealand's 1,200,000 voters gave Holyoake's liberal, socialist-minded National Party a majority of 44 seats in the country's 80-seat Parliament-a loss of only...
...people's watchdog" and gave him a name, ombudsman, which means representative. Sweden's current ombudsman, Alfred Bexelius, 63, is a unique national mediator who serves the public by prodding laggard civil servants. He and his ten assistants already have counterparts in Denmark, Finland, Norway and New Zealand. Britain recently joined the movement by appointing a "parliamentary commission," and agitation for the appointment of ombudsmen has suddenly become popular all over the U.S. So far, however, the word does not even appear in U.S. dictionaries...