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Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret flew to Southern Rhodesia to open a special Rhodes exhibit. Meanwhile, 5,400 miles away, 400 ex-Rhodes scholars gathered at Oxford for a celebration of their own. Half came from the U.S., the rest from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, India, Malta, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa...
Team No. 2 was Hillary, the beekeeper from Auckland, New Zealand, and Tenzing, the sinewy Asian whom Colonel Hunt named "the greatest Sherpa of them all." They dragged themselves up to 27,900 ft. and there, on a rocky ledge, they spent a gale-swept night in a ragged tent...
Dial M for Murder, rounded up and gave a tea party for 45 fellow old girls of the Diocesan High School of Auckland, New Zealand. Editorialized the London Times...
...which say they are not on the side of the United Nations at all, but are neutral in the fight. How ridiculous . . ." Then Taft took his general thesis one step further: "If we are able to disentangle ourselves from the U.N., we already have treaties with Australia and New Zealand, with Japan and the Philippines, and a very definite understanding with the French in Indo-China. I think we should [also] have a free hand to form a [military] alliance with the British [on] Far Eastern affairs . . . but not one in which they possess any final veto against our policies...
While he was still an adolescent, his father's farm had begun filling orders from all over the world. The New Zealand government sent for 60,000 pupae of the Cinnabar moth, hoping the caterpillars might eat up the country's ragwort weed. The Newmans supplied the pupae and the moths did well in New Zealand. They even ate some ragwort. But eventually, New Zealand birds ate most of the Cinnabars...