Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shining low in the north and the weather (10° F.) was balmy for Antarctica when Britain's Dr. Vivian E. Fuchs and his band of tractor-borne scientists paraded into Scott Station on the Ross Sea. The New Zealanders manning the station greeted them with a brass band: a trombone, washboards and garbage-can lids. Sled dogs howled a mournful welcome, and Americans from the nearby headquarters of Operation Deep Freeze presented a cake iced with the flags of Britain and New Zealand. Said bearded "Bunny" Fuchs: "We did what we set out to do." What...
...Elizabeth got an even more pleasant surprise. When she presented a gold cup to Owner Sir Ernest Davis, Sir Ernest announced: "We have with us the greatest lady in the world. I want to present Bali Ha'i to her on behalf of the sporting public of New Zealand...
William H. Pickering, 47, sandy-haired, New Zealand-born director of the Government-owned Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, led the Caltech team that developed the satellite payload for the Army's Jupiter-C. As a teenager he became a celebrity in his home town of Havelock, N.Z. by bringing home from boarding school the town's first crystal set, entertained his friends with dance music from Australia. A wealthy uncle from Los Angeles took him off to California to study, enrolled him in 1929 at Caltech, where Pickering took his bachelor...
...winds in Wellington, New Zealand, last week were every bit as bad as their reputation, and the visiting tennists were every bit as good. Despite blustering westerlies that whipped through the "World's Windiest Capital," Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales and Challenger Lew Hoad put on so relentless an exhibition that down under fans were perfectly satisfied that they had seen the most powerful tennis ever played anywhere...
Solemn Warning. If Dr. Fuchs leaves the U.S. base and heads for Scott Station, he will be going against the advice of New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who dashed to the Pole last fortnight after setting up a line of supply stations for the Fuchs expedition (TIME, Jan. 13). In a message to London that was made public unintentionally, Sir Edmund told Sir John Slessor, Fuchs's superior, that Fuchs should leave his equipment at the Pole and abandon further travel until next season; to do otherwise would risk the lives of all the men. When...