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Many an Anzac airman suspected that Squadron Leader Jimmy Duncan, special disciplinary officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, had X-ray eyes. "The Bull" could spot a loose tunic button, they swore, through three city blocks of buildings and traffic. Some suspected that he had seven-league boots as well. One unlucky trainload of troops who gave Jimmy the raspberry as their train pulled out of Wellington awoke next morning to find him waiting in Auckland (more than 300 miles away) to chew them out. He had grabbed a plane and flown up for the privilege...
Runner-up to the U.S.: Great Britain, with one doctor for 870 people, followed by Iceland (890), Denmark (950), Canada and New Zealand (970 each). About half of the U.S. doctors are absorbed by specialties (50,000), hospitals (27,000), government service (more than 12,000) and various sidelines, leaving a scant 100,000 general practitioners-about one for every 1,500 people. How this compares with the G.P. ratio in other countries, the A.M.A. could...
...charge, messages to any friends or relatives of students that it could contact in Great Britain or Europe. Additional equipment had given the transmitter a 1000-watt kick (the FCC maximum) by that date, and W1AF had already circled the globe, establishing contact with a British ham in New Zealand...
...Zealand-born Engineer Frank Bell, who has worked four years on the Whizzard, pressed the starter button. The turbine gave a puff of kerosene-scented smoke and whined like a vacuum cleaner. As the whine increased, the car picked up speed. In 14 seconds it reached 60 miles an hour -more than twice as lively as low-priced U.S. cars. The Whizzard has almost no vibration, and it needs no gear shift. The only control pedals are the brake and the foot throttle...
...Mother Aubert died. In New Zealand today there are seven Homes of Compassion serving as hospitals, orphanages or homes for unmarried mothers. All are enthusiastically supported by both Protestant and Catholic New Zealanders. Last year her Sisters of Compassion were accorded papal approbation as an order of the Roman Catholic Church. And in New Zealand as in Rome, where the long process of her sainthood has just begun, they remember her words: "Never refuse the poor anything...