Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convened: in Washington last week, the second annual meeting of ANZUS, the Australian-New Zealand-U.S. Treaty Council...
Married. Sir Edmund Hillary, 34, co-conqueror of Mt. Everest; and Louise Mary Rose, 23, daughter of James H. Rose, president of New Zealand's Alpine Club; in the chapel of Diocesan High School at Auckland, New Zealand...
Home to a tumultuous welcome in Papakura, New Zealand, Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mt. Everest, made all sorts of news. He announced plans to marry a New Zealand music student in September; obliged photographers by flopping his 6 ft. 3 in. into a symbolic white victory chair built on skis which admirers presented to him; and he told how he first heard of his knighthood. "We were strolling down a mountain pass about halfway to Katmandu," he said. "We had long beards and looked extremely disreputable-in fact, like I do in Papakura. A Sherpa came along with...
EAST-West trade is steadily growing despite restrictions. New Zealand has quietly signed a deal to sell 500 tons of butter to Russia, and is dickering to ship even larger quantities of meat to Poland. Russian oil has begun to be sold in Italy, France and Argentina, and may soon be flowing in bigger quantities to Greece and half a dozen European countries currently negotiating barter agreements...
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...