Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such salty, down-to-earth treatment of an esoteric surgical specialty could have come only from New Zealand-born Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 74, onetime champion golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery (Little, Brown; $35), he enlisted the University of Miami's David Ralph Millard Jr., 37, a kindred spirit and former pupil. Utterly different from anything else in the field, their work is neither a set text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting...
...menagerie -scowling, smirking, always true to life, yet slightly absurd-have stayed in the minds of millions. Apart from talent, all great cartoonists need a point of attack from which to enfilade their natural and necessary enemy-the great. Low's point of attack was his own New Zealand background. His Scottish-born father was one of those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found his style, starting at eleven...
BOSTON, April 7--Sir Anthony Eden, 59, former British prime minister, cut short a New Zealand vacation and flew into Boston today for a medical checkup...
Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January...
...although recent events have proved that international Communism is "a passing and not a permanent phase," Dulles warned the members of the eight-nation group (U.S., Britain, France, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan) that SEATO must maintain its posture of defense-both militarily, against the ever-present threat of Red Chinese attack, and internally, against Peking's stepped-up campaign of subversion in Southeast Asia. And for the information of the delegates, Dulles reiterated the U.S. position on the two Chinas, i.e., nonrecognition of the Chinese Communist regime, opposition to its seating in the U.N., and steadfast...