Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hulking, handsome Garfield Todd, the ex-missionary from New Zealand who is the colony's Premier, was indignant. "We are in danger of becoming a race of fear-ridden neurotics," he scolded. "In Southern Rhodesia, the spirit of Rhodes will pass from the land unless racialism is banished." Summoning a caucus of his dominant United Rhodesia Party, he told the legislators: "The vote must be "given to those Africans who have earned the right of being called civilized and responsible persons." His suggestion: Give the vote to all Africans who have reached "Standard Eight" level of education-corresponding roughly...
...replaced by Tory John Diefenbaker (who turned up on schedule). Racist South Africa's Strydom refused to come for "personal reasons" which many ascribed to an unwillingness to sit down with-or to be photographed with-the new nation of Ghana's Negro P.M., Kwame Nkrumah. New Zealand's Sidney Holland was laid up with a slipped disk. Ceylon's Solomon Bandaranaike was busy at home fighting a civil-disobedience campaign. All three sent substitutes...
Hard Luck. In Auckland, N.Z., ex-Pugilist K. O. wrote the New Zealand Herald's editor: "With reference to the article, 'Superstitions Are Strong,' I can corroborate the power of amulets. The only time I was successful at boxing was when I had a lucky horseshoe in one of my gloves...
...half, which roughly corresponds to quarterback, the Bears have ex-New Zealand international captain Pat Vincent...
Anchorman. Norman went on to serve as High Commissioner to New Zealand, and last August was assigned to Cairo as Ambassador to Egypt and Minister to Lebanon. In Cairo he served as Pearson's Middle East anchorman during the Suez crisis and the creation of the Canadian-inspired United Nations Emergency Force. He also handled Australia's affairs in Cairo after Canberra broke off relations with Gamal Nasser's Egyptian government...