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...landing-strip runway at McMurdo Sound. Navy ground crews insisted upon marking ends of the runway Navy-style, with oil barrels painted black, or even-as a concession to Air Force protests-by painting some of the barrels orange. The Air Force cargo pilots, who fly in from New Zealand, held out for the way the Air Force marks its ice strips in Canada, Alaska and Greenland-by planting double rows of pine trees at either end of the ice strip...
...that later set off the rumors in the U.S. press of a royal rift. Elizabeth's subjects, however, were more sensible. Australians were charmed when he talked to wharf laborers, called in small groups of representative citizens for cocktails and dinner and quizzed them on Commonwealth affairs. New Zealanders remember him fondly at a lunch in Christchurch, breaking into the speeches in his own honor to propose a toast to the mayor, who, Philip had discovered, was celebrating his wedding anniversary, remember still more fondly a reveler shouting a last farewell as the royal yacht left the wharf...
...they had glimpsed the Trojan plains where 3,000 years earlier Achilles fought Hector for mastery over the straits dividing Europe from Asia. Just across the bay from their landing point were the cliffs of Gallipoli Peninsula, where in World War I the British, French, Australian and New Zealand invaders suffered 250,000 casualties trying valorously but vainly to capture Constantinople and open a supply route to their Czarist allies. Within the game's allotted three days, the Marines seized the road leading to the Dardanelles straits, the goal which the Anzacs of 1915 had glimpsed so briefly from...
...first week-at least-reflected the new mood. Lebanon's Charles Malik withdrew from what had been a hotly contested race for the Assembly presidency, and New Zealand's Sir Leslie Munro was swept into office by a vote of 77 to 1. The Steering Committee accepted a U.S. proposal to put aside Red China's perennial membership bid. The committee rejected a Greek request to debate British "atrocities" in Cyprus, settling for a less controversial listing: "The Cyprus Question." Even Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, with his mechanical repetition of familiar Russian themes, surprised...
...grow gloriously lopsided along whatever lines they pleased. This too had its good points, but Vag could not see why it was any worse to spend four years studying accounting than it was to spend the same amount of time studying Spoken Mandarin, or the history of Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent islands...